Gregory David Roberts Quotes

The Smile He Gave Me Was Warm, But He Was Still Wounded By His Mother's Death. There Was A Hollowness In His Eyes: A Black Hole Of Shocked Grieving That Swallowed All The Questions And Released No Answers. When He Returned To His Work, Cutting Lengths Of Coconut-fibre Rope For The Men To Tie Around Bamboo Bracing Poles, His Young Face Assumed A Numb Expression. I Knew That Expression: I Sometimes Caught It, By Chance, In The Mirror: The Way We Look When The Part Of Happiness That's Trusting And Innocent Is Ripped Away, And We Blame Ourselves, Rightly Or Wrongly, For Its Loss.

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