Mike

“I told him,' she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“It's a very sad thing, to be in no hurry, and I would not be so free in admitting it, if I were you,' he said, still staring at the bottle. When he wasn't smiling his face looked flabby, slack, and pallid grey. He was unwell, but it was the kind of unwell you have to work at. 'We have saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. It mightn't be true of everyone, but it was true enough for me. The little good that I've done in the world has always dragged behind it a shadow of dark sinpiraction. What I do know now, and didn't know then is that , in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us. But then, when salvation speaks, the secrets we kept, and the motives we concealed, creep from their shadows. They cling to us, those dark motives for our good deeds. Redemption's climb is steepest if the good we did is soiled with secret shame.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The work had fallen to me, it seemed, because I knew a little more than the next man, and I was willing to do it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram