David Roberts
David Roberts
people shantaram worst
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
winning sometimes surrender
Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.
persons
I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
men winning good-woman
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
voice half afghan
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
misuse nations immune
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
thinking heaven world
There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
lying fighting people
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.
brother pride blood
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
dream wish rambling
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
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.
shantaram knows
I don't know what frightens me more
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.