Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

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 voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they'd never happened.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. 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.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.