Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

Time, too, will die, just as we do, when the universe dies, and is born again. Time's a living thing, just as we are, with birth, longevity, and extinction. Time has a heartbeat, but it isn't ours, no matter how much of ourselves we sacrifice to it. We don't need Time. Time needs us. Even Time loves company.

And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.

There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor. -- Abdullah

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

Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it's our will alone that leads us to one or the other.

Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions.

The same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of the two souls twinned by destiny. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

The wonder isn't that love finds us, as strange and fated and mystical as that is. The wonder is that even when we never find it, even when love waits in the wings of dream too long, even when love doesn't knock on the door, or leave messages, or put flowers in our hands, so many of us never stop believing in love.

The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'.

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, 'because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

A man must love his bear.

And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we're connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature.

WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards

It was just that all the hope had been so empty, so meaningless. And if you prove to a man how vain his hope is, how vain his hoping was, you kill the bright, believing part of him that wants to be loved.

Now sadly there is attitude and no style.

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head.

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.