Quote

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Gregory David Roberts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Afghan
Half
Voice
Love

More quotes by Gregory David Roberts

Image
The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\
Gregory David Roberts
Image
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
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.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Powerful people have no regrets.
Gregory David Roberts
Image
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
Gregory David Roberts