Gregory David Roberts Quotes

It’s a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

The choices we make are branches in the tree of possibility.

Първото правило на черния бизнес навсякъде е: не допускай никой да разбере какво мислиш. Допълнението на Дидие към това правило бе следното: бъди винаги наясно какво мисли другият за теб

The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.

Money isn’t the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There’s no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there’s no clean way to make it.

The drums staggered toward the distant street. Moving away from us, the dancers romped and rolled on the rhythm, their swaying heads like a field of wildflowers weaving back and forth on waves of wind...

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

It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death’s already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It

Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a...

Loves that produce our courage.

It is always a fool’s mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.

When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

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 w...

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.

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.

You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.