“In the pool I lose myself. My thoughts merge and flow. Everything – my body, my heart, the universe – seems tolerable when I’m protected by water and nothing touches me. All I think about is the effort. Below my body there’s a restless play of dark and light projected onto the bottom of the pool, that drifts away like smoke.”

“In the pool I lose myself. My thoughts merge and flow. Everything – my body, my heart, the universe – seems tolerable when I’m protected by water and nothing touches me. All I think about is the effort. Below my body there’s a restless play of dark and light projected onto the bottom of the pool, that drifts away like smoke.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri