This is my final quote from Shantaram,...
"They'd lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trusts had been, and I didn't like or respect or admire them any more, but still I loved them. I had no choice. I understood that, perfectly, standing in the white wilderness of snow. You can't kill love. You can't even kill it with hate. You can kill in-love, and loving and even loveliness. You can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own, and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die."
-Gregory David Roberts-
15 years ago
2 comments:
It makes me think. Of all those people I've said 'I love you's to before and feel like I don't love them anymore, am I lying now, or was I lying then?
Thanks for the quote.
Often we don't realise the length of our love. We tend to think of it as a momentary thing; something that we get over. Maybe we're not supposed to. Maybe we're supposed to keep it as a part of our life that helps be whoever we are today.
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