Love deepens towards permanence

Salman Rushdie

This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.

~ Salman Rushdie in THE GOLDEN HOUSE

THE GOLDEN HOUSE

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