quotes from Life of Pi
"For fear, real fear...nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you"
"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"
"a part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger. If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker. He kept me from thinking too much about my family and tragic circumstances. He pushed me to go on living. I hated him for it, yet at the same time I was grateful."
(from pg 216-219)
I haven't finished it yet, but it's a good book. My attention span was at an all time low, and I was reading about 6 different books at the same time, and then I started reading 'Life of Pi' and I was hooked. Those other books haven't been touched for days, because all I want to do is read 'Life of Pi' ;)
"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"
"a part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger. If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker. He kept me from thinking too much about my family and tragic circumstances. He pushed me to go on living. I hated him for it, yet at the same time I was grateful."
(from pg 216-219)
I haven't finished it yet, but it's a good book. My attention span was at an all time low, and I was reading about 6 different books at the same time, and then I started reading 'Life of Pi' and I was hooked. Those other books haven't been touched for days, because all I want to do is read 'Life of Pi' ;)