Gregory David Roberts Quotes
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
...един добър мъж е толкова силен, колкото е нужно на подходящата за него жена.
Фанатиците винаги имат един такъв раздърпан, опулен вид. Приличат на хора, които не мастурбират, но непрекъснато мислят за това.
Приятелството е и вид лекарство и пазарите за него понякога също са черни.
I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.
There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.
...he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.
Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them
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.
In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.
This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.