Quotes from book

Shantaram

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”

“Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business”

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

“The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.”

“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”