Queffelec Yann Quotes

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. ~ Yann Martel

Don't worry about being good ... . Aspire to be authentic. ~ Yann Martel

You see these guinea pigs? Well ... they'er not dangerous. ~ Yann Martel

Tiptoe to the water's edge. They show their raiments. ~ Yann Martel

That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. ~ Yann Martel

Don't you bully me with your politeness! ~ Yann Martel

Art is rooted in joy. ~ Yann Martel

Proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack ~ Yann Martel

onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds; ~ Yann Martel

It's not right that gentleness meet horror. ~ Yann Martel

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity. ~ Yann Martel

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. ~ Yann Martel

the senile, lecherous expression of a camel. ~ Yann Martel

I was determined to move forward. ~ Yann Martel

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. ~ Yann Martel

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

Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story. ~ Yann Martel

My agency was pure and miraculous. It conferred power upon me. (pg. 223) ~ Yann Martel

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas. ~ Yann Martel

This story has a happy ending. ~ Yann Martel

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. ~ Yann Martel

With questions that are orders ~ Yann Martel

Only fear can defeat life. ~ Yann Martel

seem to bear flowers or ~ Yann Martel

Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists, ~ Yann Martel

Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed. ~ Yann Martel

This is the first time we've spoken in years and it feels tedious, like a mutually assigned chore. ~ Yann Tanguay

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

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

I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die. ~ Yann Martel

Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof. ~ Yann Martel

Science can only take you so far and then you have to leap ~ Yann Martel

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

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

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. ~ Yann Martel

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

This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain. ~ Yann Martel

A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed. ~ Yann Martel

The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great. ~ Yann Martel

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards. ~ Yann Martel

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

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

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood. ~ Yann Martel

Animals don't escape from somewhere but from something ~ Yann Martel

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

Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change . ~ Yann Martel

I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death. ~ Yann Martel

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

Most of us get our history through story. ~ Yann Martel

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. ~ Yann Martel

Then normal sank. ~ Yann Martel

A wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions, ~ Yann Martel

Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. ~ Yann Martel

Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. ~ Yann Martel

From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to fictitious address. ~ Yann Martel

Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don't like. ~ Yann Martel

I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out. ~ Yann Martel

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

I must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands. ~ Yann Martel

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

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

I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I have to turn miracle into routine. ~ Yann Martel

Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta. ~ Yann Martel

I was as surprised as a flower that sees for the first time a bee coming towards it ~ Yann Martel

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

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

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by ~ Yann Martel

... nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science. ~ Yann Martel

When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. ~ Yann Martel

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say? ~ Yann Martel

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. ~ Yann Martel

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. ~ Yann Martel

Life goes on and you don't touch tigers. ~ Yann Martel

I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go. ~ Yann Martel

That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support. ~ Yann Martel

The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated. ~ 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

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names. ~ Yann Martel

The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies. ~ Yann Martel

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. ~ Yann Martel

Her fear was something useless that only hampered her. ~ Yann Martel

He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age. ~ Yann Martel

If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way. ~ Yann Martel

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

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. ~ Yann Martel

I am careful never to talk about religion. Who am I to kick at people's crutches? ~ Yann Martel

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. ~ Yann Martel

Two blind people in two separate lifeboats meeting up in the Pacific–the coincidence seems a little far-fetched, no? ~ Yann Martel

They would emerge a short distance away, sometimes three or four of them, a short lived archipelago of volcanic islands. ~ Yann Martel

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add:
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose. ~ Yann Martel

The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. ~ 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

If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything? ~ Yann Martel

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. ~ Yann Martel

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. ~ Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ~ Yann Martel

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

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. ~ Yann Martel

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe. ~ Yann Martel

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. ~ Yann Martel