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...I just finished reading Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts.
I'm at a complete loss.
Truly, one of the most amazing books I've ever read.
"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on."
Perhaps it only resonates when one has come to the end of Roberts' novel and found this paragraph. I don't know.
900+ pages, and worth every single page, if only for the sheer emotional journey, not to mention the endless and twisting adventure.
I'm at a complete loss.
Truly, one of the most amazing books I've ever read.
"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on."
Perhaps it only resonates when one has come to the end of Roberts' novel and found this paragraph. I don't know.
900+ pages, and worth every single page, if only for the sheer emotional journey, not to mention the endless and twisting adventure.