“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.”
― Shantaram
― 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.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”
― 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
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