It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
YANN MARTELIt was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
YANN MARTELThe moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
YANN MARTELSitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
YANN MARTELCan there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
YANN MARTELYou must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
YANN MARTELI felt I was beating a rainbow to death
YANN MARTELReality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
YANN MARTELAtheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
YANN MARTELI wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
YANN MARTELFaith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
YANN MARTELscience can only take you so far and then you have to leap
YANN MARTELIn a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
YANN MARTELLife is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
YANN MARTELHe’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
YANN MARTELWe commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
YANN MARTELIt’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
YANN MARTEL