Yann Martel Quotes

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.

There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.