Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

But you don't get the blues, ever?' she asked. She was so earnest that I wanted to put my arm around her.

Then I stood from the wall, held her in my arms, and kissed her. It was a long kiss. We lived out a life together in that kiss: we lived and loved and grew old together, and we died. Then our lips parted, and that life we might've had retreated, shrinking to a spark of light we would always recognise in one another's eyes

I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.

the crime of my existence in the world, was invisible and inconceivable.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Când acÈ›ion?m, chiar cu cele mai bune intenÈ›ii, când ne amestec?m în cursul lumii, risc?m de fiecare dat? s? provoc?m un alt dezastru care s-ar putea s? nu fie direct înf?ptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil f?r? intervenÈ›ia noastr?. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedrept??i au fost provocate de oamenii care au încercat la un moment dat s? schimbe lucrurile.

Every object was significant; in my hunted exile, the windowsill had become my home, and the talismans were my nation.

The game, for both of us, is to discover the fair price. That's the only way to know what anything costs.

Fiecare b?taie de inim? omeneasc?, este un univers de posibilit??i.

The wonder and sustaining solace of it all is that were not alone: we're never alone if we live and we journey onward to new cities, new adventures and new dreams in the search for meaning, and purpose, and love.

That's what it means, to have a police force: you've accepted a group of people who can't afford to not win.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve. All

Freedom and happiness and justice and even love are all parts of the same whole: peace, within.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

Exactly-merde and bad food, c'est l'amour.

Language and music changed with every step, and every restaurant spilled a different scent into the boiling air.

I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are.

Every kind of illness, disability, and hardship paraded there, stood at the doorways of restaurants and shops, or approached people on the street with professionally plaintive cries. Like the first sight of the slums from the windows of the bus, that glimpse of the suffering street brought a hot shame to my healthy face.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. '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.

Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.

Annoying is worse than dangerous, n'est-ce pas? It is easier to live with a dangerous man than an annoying one.

And there were more smiles in the eyes on those crowded streets than in any other place I'd ever known.