Yann Martel

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. ↗

— Yann Martel

#martel #yann-martel #life

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-of-pi #survival #life

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion #life

Hidup ini begitu indah, hingga maut pun jatuh cinta padanya ↗

— Yann Martel

#inspirational

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. ↗

— Yann Martel

#elevation-after-prayers #life-of-pi #praying #salah #life

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. ↗

— Yann Martel

#despair #expression #hell #life

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. ↗

— Yann Martel

#emotion #life #love #beauty

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

— Yann Martel

#envy #life #death

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life