Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

out at them, turning this way and that, his face cramped in an expression

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and needless complicities such as those.

mi?o?? to droga jednokierunkowa. Mi?o??, tak jak szacunek, nie s?u?y do brania, tylko do dawania.

A man has to respect himself bofore he can respect anyone else.

Peace, Idriss once said, is perfect forgiveness, and is the opposite of fear.

Zemsta, tak jak seks, najlepsza jest powolna, nale?y j? zaspokaja? z otwartymi oczami.

You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean... You learn something or you feel something completely new, when you break your heart that way. Something that only you can know or feel in that way.

I was angry that she'd told me so little of the truth, and prepared me so poorly for the interview. I was hurt that she didn't trust me enough to give me the whole story.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.

Milczenie potrafi rani? jak bat

that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving it.

I'd always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.

pride was rising like new green

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

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. I

Ka?de uderzenie ludzkiego serca jest kosmosem mo?liwo?ci

The continuing silence and expectant seriousness in the room filled me with a chill of menace.

I was hers. She was mine. My body was her chariot, and she drove it into the sun. Her body was my river, and I became the sea.

Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

There is no believing in God,' he declared, smiling again. 'We either know God, or we do not.

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.