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  1. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    There are demons in all of us. Some of them do not mean us any harm. They just want to live inside us. Some of them want more. They want to eat the souls that hold them.
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  2. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    I'm startin' a new gang, and I want you to join me.' It was my turn to laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'How about… why?' 'Why a gang?' he asked, passing back the joint. 'The usual. So we can buy guns, do a little menace and mayhem, scare people into giving us truckloads of money, spend the truckloads of money, and die in the effort.' 'Dying in the effort? That's your sales pitch?
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  3. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story.
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  4. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that's good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.
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  5. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me. But it was okay. It was okay.
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  6. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    There's no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be.
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  7. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish.
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  8. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    Compassion's a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can't fake it. I know. I've tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to go back to being a genuine, uncaring cunt, just to get well again. It's genuine, see, even being an uncaring cunt, and I'm drawn to genuine things, even if I don't like them.
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  9. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    I'm a writer. I have to believe in the power of love. Suicide isn't an option.' 'Not for you.' 'And not for you. If you're thinking about it, you can also put some thought into the fact that you don't have the right to take your own life. Nobody does.' 'Why not?' Rannveig like the runway asked, her eyes wide, innocent of the cruel, broken question she'd just asked. 'Think of it this way, Rannveig, does a deranged person have the right to kill a stranger?' 'No.' 'No. And when suicide is in your head, you're the deranged person, and you're also the stranger, in danger of the harm you might do to yourself. No matter how bad things get, you don't have the right to kill the stranger that you might become, for a while, in your own life. The rest of your life would tell you, at that point, it's not an option.
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  10. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.
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  11. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    resentment is unmet need or desire,
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  12. Gregory David Roberts _ The Mountain Shadow

    I don't know about the universe, but I'll make a pact with you. I hereby promise that I'll always dance in the rain at least once, in every one of my monsoons.
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