Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

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There is no believing in God. We either know God, or we do not.

It's good to know what's wrong with the world,' Karla said, after a while. 'But it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Yes, Lin, you want me? Prabaker said, popping through the doorway from his eavesdropping post outside.

I take everything personally—that's what being a person is all about.

Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong things for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right and that we admit the wrong, that we do not lie to ourselves and convince ourselves that what we do is right.

and violent, and they need to fear it. If

I don't know. They look like monuments to something that died, she muttered to me as we followed him. Something very unpopular.. like the human spirit, for example.

The rain grew heavier, but a restlessness I couldn't fight or understand kept me walking.

Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be

God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

It was a friendly kiss, impulsive and generous and light-hearted, but I let myself believe that it was more.

My thoughts floated back to the boat sailing on the surreal lake that the monsoon had made of the street.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to the others more often than they tell the truth.

thunder followed with deafening applause.

And I buried them, too many of those men, and grieved their stories and their lives into my own.

She walked out with Prabaker, and I spun around on one foot, whispering a shout of joy while I did an excited little dance.

Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it.

I mean, that faggot, think about it. If the whole world was like him, the human race would die out.' 'And if the whole world was like you, Concannon, we'd deserve to.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after. They're the canaries, kind of, in the coalmines of our hearts. If we stop feeling sorry for them, when they let us down, we're in deep trouble.

Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.