Nathalie

“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram