# Quote — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

> At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread instead is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone.

- Author: [Gregory David Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts.md)
- Book: [Shantaram](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shantaram#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/at-first-when

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> The only victory that really counts in prison is survival.

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> Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened. - Karla

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> Men wage war for profit or principle, but they fight them for land and women.

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