Love and suffering

“ I’d learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they ‘re the stars that we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So, I took each sadness that she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky. ”

- Lin, in Shantaram, after the floods and cholera episode, sleeping with karla in his hut.

~ by f0ry0u on February 18, 2007.