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The Mountain Shadow

Book by Gregory David Roberts · 3 quotes · Love, Shantaram, Australian Author

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“The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it’s our will alone that leads us to one or the other.”

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“The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven’s stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake’s still burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you’re done, and you can’t go on. But it’s not true. It’s never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you’re lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn’t know how to quit, because it doesn’t know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It’s not what it was. It’s always different. It’s always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, that new place for the light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you’ll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.”

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“Любимый цвет: голубой с зеленью, цвет листьев на фоне неба. - Черт, и правда ведь, - признал я. А любимое время года? - Муссон, сезон дождей. - Любимый...- Голливудский фильм - "Касабланка", любимый болливудский фильм - "Узник любви", любимая еда - мороженое-джелато, любимая песня на хинди - "Этот мир и эти люди" из фильма "Разочарование", любимый мотоцикл...тот, на котором ты сейчас ездишь, да благословят его боги, любимые духи...- Твои, - вздохнул я, в отчаянии вскидывая руки. - Мои любимые духи - твои.”

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