Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) / quote 62 of 69

The jinx of "It's gonna be okay"

The horse was making me look good. It’s gonna be okay, I whispered to myself, knowing, as the words trotted through the thick fog of vain hope in my mind, that I’d uttered the certain jinx formula.

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