Frases de Gregory David Roberts

“Aunque tardé mucho tiempo y tuve que recorrer gran parte del mundo para aprender lo que ahora sé sobre el amor, el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, la esencia de ese conocimiento me llegó en un solo instante, encadenado a una pared mientras me torturaban. De algún modo me di cuenta entonces, entre los gritos que llenaban mi cabeza, que incluso en aquella maniatada y sangrienta impotencia, seguía conservando mi libertad; la libertad de odiar a los hombres que me estaban torturando o de perdonarles. No parece mucho, lo sé, pero sometidos al dolor y al suplicio de las cadenas, cuando es lo único que tenemos, esa libertad es un universo de posibilidades. Y la decisión que tomemos, sea el odio o el perdón, puede convertirse en la historia de nuestra vida.”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”

“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

“One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

“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.”

“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”

“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”

“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”

“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like”

“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”

“every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”

“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.”

“Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.”

“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”

“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.”

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

“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.”