Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Each one of us, we all have to earn our future,’ she said slowly. ‘I think the future is like anything else that’s important. It has to be earned. If we don’t earn it, we don’t have a future at all. A...

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.

The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart,...

I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the oce...

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...

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

Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.

There was a horrible, blood-freezing scream somewhere very close. I suddenly recognised it as my own, but I couldn’t stop it. And I looked at the men, the brave and beautiful men beside me, running in...

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.

„Ако съдбата не те разсмива — беше ми казала Карла в един от първите ни разговори — ти просто не схващаш шегата.

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.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Wenn einen das Schicksal nicht zum Lachen bringt, dann hat man den Witz nicht kapiert.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She’s

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they’re very tired.

«Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает».

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

If the hour comes, and there’s no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we...

There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the percep...