“It was just that all the hope had been so empty, so meaningless. And if you prove to a man how vain his hope is, how vain his hoping was, you kill the bright, believing part of him that wants to be loved.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“But as I watched him smile back at me and zip his coat, I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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