I love you, Karla,” I said when we were alone again. “I loved you the first second I saw you. I think I’ve loved you for as long as there’s been love in the world. I love your voice. Furthermore, I love your face. Furthermore, I love your hands. Furthermore, I love everything you do, and I love the way you do everything. It feels like magic when you touch me. I love the way your mind works, and the things you say. And even though it’s all true, all that, I don’t really understand it, and I can’t explain it – to you or to myself. I just love you. I just love you with all my heart. You do what God should do: you give me a reason to live. You give me a reason to love the world.

— Gregory David Roberts

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. More or Par makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

— Gregory David Roberts

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.

— Gregory David Roberts

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

— Gregory David Roberts

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

— Gregory David Roberts

It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

— Gregory David Roberts

It's such a huge arrogance to love someone, and there's too much of it around. There's too much love in this world. Sometimes I think that's what heavens are-- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

— Gregory David Roberts

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

— Gregory David Roberts

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

— Gregory David Roberts

Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

— Gregory David Roberts