Yann Martel: Frases em inglês
“You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?”
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Contexto: Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 5
“My suffering left me sad and gloomy.”
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 3
“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.”
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 336
Contexto: 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.
Yann Martel livro Beatrice and Virgil
Fonte: Beatrice and Virgil
“My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.”
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi
Yann Martel livro Life of Pi
Fonte: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 74, p. 232
Contexto: Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. 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.