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“My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

Books

“Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.”

Yann Martel

Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 173

Life , Fate , People , Animals

“Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 4, p. 17

Fear , Food , Animals

“"Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 23, p. 76

Love , God , Religion

“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (…) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.”

Yann Martel

Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 97

Fate , Past , Future , Animals

“It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 57, p. 179

Peace

“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”

Yann Martel

Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114

Understanding , Dance

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

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 94, p. 316

Life