Belief in Love

People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love and falling in love, but they know now that...they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin"

--An excerpt from Gregory David Robert's "Shantaram"

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