Life of Pi

…atheists 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. (28)

When it (diminishing flight distance) works, the result is an emotionally stable stress-free wild animal that not only stays put, but is healthy, lives a very long time, eats without fuss, behaves and socializes in natural ways and—the best sign—reproduces. (40)

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt…(41)

…animals don’t escape to somewhere but from something…animals that escape go from the known into the unknown and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hide in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot. (41)

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. (45)

…the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God. (49)

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. (50)

But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth…Why would God wish that upon Himslef? Why nto leave death to the mortals?...LOVE! (54)

Jesus—a pedestrian god (56)

If you take two steps towards God…God run to you! (61)

deathbed leap of faith (64)