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I said nothing. It wasn't for fear of angering Mr. Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. — Yann Martel

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. — Yann Martel

There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all. — Yann Martel

[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. — Yann Martel

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. — Yann Martel

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying. — Yann Martel

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. — Yann Martel

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. — Yann Martel

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we - in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? — Yann Martel

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy. — Yann Martel

Christianity is a religion in a rush. — Yann Martel

communion with God in the middle of bags of flour — Yann Martel

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory. — Yann Martel

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema. — Yann Martel

There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi
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We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be. — Yann Martel

Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats. — Yann Martel

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. — Yann Martel

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born. — Yann Martel

wild are, in practice, — Yann Martel

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it? — Yann Martel

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on! — Yann Martel

Isn't it ironic, Richard Parker? We're in hell yet still we're afraid of immortality — Yann Martel

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? — Yann Martel

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? — Yann Martel

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness. — Yann Martel

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel

We believe what we see.' ... What do you do when you're in the dark? — Yann Martel

I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory, with a brush (Life of Pi 36) — Yann Martel

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. — Yann Martel

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. — Yann Martel

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. — Yann Martel

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 — Yann Martel

I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination. — Yann Martel

I have a story that will make you believe in God. — Yann Martel

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel

The grand march of progress apparently includes the unfortunate necessity of chopping down every obstacle in its way. — Yann Martel

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. — Yann Martel

Art is rooted in joy. — Yann Martel

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. — Yann Martel

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. — Yann Martel

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness. — Yann Martel

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love. — Yann Martel

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. — Yann Martel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel

We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion. — Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. — Yann Martel

Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character. — Lucrecia Martel

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. — Yann Martel

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it. — Yann Martel

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. — Yann Martel

In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. — Yann Martel

We believe what we see.
So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark? — Yann Martel

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long. — Yann Martel

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. — Yann Martel

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet. — Yann Martel

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way. — Yann Martel

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. — Yann Martel

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. — Yann Martel

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. — Yann Martel

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals — Yann Martel