If you are going to read only one more book this year, do go and read Arundhaty Roy's ”The God of Small Things”. If you are going to buy only one book as a Christmas present to someone, do buy that one. You won't regret. Maybe one day I know what to say about that book but at the moment it's still one of those books that I love so much that I don't even want to talk about them.

Then she sat up and put her arms around him. Drew him down beside her.
They lay like that for a long time. Awake in the dark. Quietness and Emptiness.
Not old. Not young.
But a viable die-able age.

They were strangers who had met in a chance encounter.
They had known each other before Life bagan.