Gregory David Roberts Quotes

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you...to make my love bearable.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself - mentally, physically

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.