David Roberts
David Roberts
David Roberts quotes about
suffering lovers shantaram
The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.
heart hands long
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.
revenge men silence
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
eye being-in-love voice
Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
real want succeed
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla
fists done palms
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
persons
I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
real heart hands
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.
dream wish rambling
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
shantaram knows
I don't know what frightens me more
book firsts shantaram
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
notorious has-beens
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
stupid lazy making-money
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
finding-yourself trying way
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.