Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I've never really fit in.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I was the weirdest kid in this small town in Washington. I was the only person who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn't understand it... They said I was a weirdo or that I didn't belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn't belong there.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

There are many ways to be the odd girl out. Your pain can brief or lasting, visible to all or none, with one or many. One of the longest, quietest ways to be the odd girl out is to be friends with two girls who are closer to each other than to you.

I always felt like a misfit.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.