Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

my heart put a wishing star in my eyes for them.

I told him,' she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

This is how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.

Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be

There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes.

the sun each morning rose with love for her.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

The scents of the fruits surrounded us as their tastes dissolved in our mouths.

It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death's already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It

Why do you stay here, when you can leave?

As we walked, it occurred to me that the slum had been strangely devoid of pariah dogs. I noticed that there were none visible anywhere on the streets.

It's a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear and the anguish in it.

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. I

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

We are not apes forever. We can change ourselves. We are changing, all the time. We will discover the laws of everything, and we will control our evolution. That is destiny controlling DNA, rather than DNA controlling destiny, as it did forever, until now.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamique for their place, their time, and the lives of thousands of people?

The universe began about fifteen billion years ago, in almost absolute simplicity, and it's been getting more and more complex ever since. This movement from the simple to the complex is built into the web and weave of the universe, and it's called the tendency toward complexity. We're the products of this complexification, and so are the birds, and the bees, and the trees

She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.

It's a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.

Every human heartbeat, he'd said many times, is a universe of possibilities.