Bali Quotes

Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you've done.

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?

I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant.

Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali.

Toba Beta

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.

There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.

Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.

Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

And like tea dissolving in hot water, the sun dissolved in the sky… creating a velvet horizon, announcing for the stars’ night dance with the moon, the awaited joy for the wounded souls. -- From Bali – The Rebirth

Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)

Linda Heavner Gerald