— Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel

“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. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”