Whilst reading my book, The Shantaram (yes, I am STILL reading it!), last night, I read this quote and thought it was H-amazing. The narrator and the woman he is absolutely head over heels in love with, have just had an incredibly difficult few days after an outbreak of cholera in the slum he is living in. They have only kissed at this stage. Karla is a very private woman and on this night she shares some of her past with him before falling asleep in his arms. The quote below are his thoughts:
"Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars 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 she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky..........
....Heaped up on the blankets, out bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance. I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping finger to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever."
Utterly beautiful !!
Luc xxx
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