Jhumpa Lahiri

"He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born."

"It's easier to surrender to confinement."

"I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you."