# Quote — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

> I'd lost my closest friends in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You are here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and reasons for loving them.

- 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/id-lost-my-closest

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