Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it's impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

Powerful people have no regrets.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Sometimes you have to lose to win

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

There's no such thing as forever.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.