Gregory David Roberts

Quotes

1. Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

2. 

   "Most loves are like that ... You heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and independence. After a while, you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here. That's why I'm sick of love."

3. 

   That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart.... India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people, like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.

4. 

   Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade; but it's worry that keeps the knife sharp, and worry that gets most of us, in the end.

5. 

   A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

6. 

   The sane man is simply a better liar than an insane man.

7. 

   The difference between news and gossip-News tells you what people did, gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

8. 

   Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is. Love & its duty, sorrow & its truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.

9. 

   A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

10. 

    Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.

11. 

    I was going through deep and silent water. Nothing and no-one could make me happy. Nothing and no-one could make me sad. I was tough. Which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

12. 

    Every day, when you are on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.