Quotes on Life Of Pi Book

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

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

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

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.