Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Robertsis an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
bully shantaram truth-is
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
heart dark risk
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
winning sometimes surrender
Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.
soldier shantaram endure
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
wanted courses knows
Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.
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.