“There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Fear dries a man’s mouth, and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.”
― Shantaram
― 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.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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