“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice-cream, or dropping a letter in a mailbox. It was a quality he did not understand. It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see.”
– “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
I guess I'd never thought about that before I read that in Jhumpa Lahiri's book we had for English...
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