Gregory David Roberts Quotes
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Gregory David Roberts Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But I always connected to the people and the purity of their faith, rather than the religious code they followed.
It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.
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.
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
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.
The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.
I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.
You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
I don't like letters. Any dark past is a vampire, feeding on the blood of the living moment, and letters are the bats.
So when will be the time to get on the train?
I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars.
We can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.
How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me.
'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.
'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.
A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.
What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
She was a woman to admire and to desire, but the message in her eye and her bearing was unmistakable: offend or disesteem her at your peril.
It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.
Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.
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.
We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions.
Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..
But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.
So it begins, this story, like everything else - with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.
When you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
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.
He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.