{"author":"Gregory David Roberts","author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts","total_quotes":60,"quotes":[{"text":"There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["inspirational","philosophy"],"id":8163,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["life","sense-of-humor"],"id":14058,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["love","skin","sky","stars"],"id":16690,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["india","place","than "],"id":21395,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake's till burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay in there, in that shine within yourself, that new place of light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["hope","love","persistence"],"id":29928,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["learning-from-mistakes","mistakes","retrospection"],"id":31547,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":" Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["inspirational","justice","successful-mind"],"id":31874,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"...един добър мъж е толкова силен, колкото е нужно на подходящата за него жена.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["love","quotes"],"id":38111,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"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. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["india","shantaram"],"id":74906,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gregory David Roberts","tags":["courage","resilience","spirit","suffering","survival","willpower"],"id":82725,"author_id":"Gregory+David+Roberts"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}