Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

Her hair was awry, and her amber eyes blazed with rage and determination.

My heart, sometimes, was a graveyard full of blank stones.

I think it is possible, and it is reasonable to say, that light is the language of God. Light may be the way that God speaks to the universe, and to us.

And from the pink and purple palette of the perished evening, a blue-black night rose up around us as we rode.

I looked into the sky that was her eyes.

If so much love could vanish into the earth and speak no more, smile no more, then love was nothing.

She was a woman to admire and to desire, but the message in her eye and her bearing was unmistakable: offend or disesteem her at your peril.

Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that's all we have—to hold on tight until the dawn.

In that poor and simple village, no-one doubted or forgot that its treasures were its people.

The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one.

God help us. God forgive us. We live on.

It was the green that the sea would be, if the sea were perfect.

Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss.

The lines, high on her cheeks, were the dams she used to keep the tears in her eyes. Unspoken, unanswerable questions parted her full, red lips, whenever she was alone, or absorbed in her work.

It's better to have a weapon and not need it, they'd told me more than once, than need it and not have it.

Hunger exaggerated the cold. It was a long, hard winter, with snow falling on the mountains around us every other day.

She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe. Looking

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

E' un bene conoscere cosa cè di sbagliato al mondo, ma è altrettanto importante sapere che per quanto il mondo sia sbagliato tu non puoi cambiarlo, ma vorrei credere che se agiamo nel modo giusto tutto può cambiare in meglio.

There were many, so many men and women, beginning with my own mother, whose courage and sacrifice inspired the memory of them.

That's a hell of a health plan—an Afghan with a Kalashnikov pointed at your doctor.

Some time on the next day we would be free, or we would be dead.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

Suffering, Khaderbhai once told me, is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.