Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Când acționăm, chiar cu cele mai bune intenții, când ne amestecăm în cursul lumii, riscăm de fiecare dată să provocăm un alt dezastru care s-ar putea să nu fie direct înfăptuit de noi, dar care n-ar f...

I was sure there had to be a pay-off, somehow, and I kept waiting for it. 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...

I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

— Късметът е онова, което ти се случва, когато на съдбата й омръзне да чака

… let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn’t enough.

Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won’t change his mind and can’t change the subject.

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

I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it - assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind o...

— Знаеш ли, Лин, от доста време си тук, понаучил си езика, ходи на село, живя в бордея, даже и в затвора лежа, заеби, и пак не загряваш, нали?— Може би не — съгласих се. — Сигурно не.— Точно така, пич...

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her...

„Единствената победа, която наистина важи в затвора, е оцеляването — ми беше казало едно старо куче в австралийския затвор. Но оцеляване означава нещо повече от това просто да останеш жив. Не само тял...

I joked and laughed about things that made other less wounded hearts weep, and I’d learned to harden myself against loss and death.

So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.

She had to do that--she had to become a widow, for life, before she was even married. That's why I never got married. I'm thirty-eight years old. I can read and write very well--my mother made sure I...

If we do not suffer with our pain, then we have not learned about anything but ourselves.

What dream, what hope, what despair drives us to the things we do, just to desert us when the deed is done? What hollow things are they, motive and reason, born at night to fade so quickly in the sunl...

I mean, that faggot, think about it. If the whole world was like him, the human race would die out.''And if the whole world was like you, Concannon, we'd deserve to.

There’s a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex—a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-Palaeolithic ancesto...