Son of Nobody Quotes

“Bring me arrogance and folly, bring me fire and destruction, bring me doom and the collapse of entire civilizations—just don’t bring me household squabbles.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“We reached shallow sands and started to die
as hails of spears and arrows landed on us.
With our feet we had to fight waves of water,
while with our hands we had to fight waves of men.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“So if the bards were spouting fiction, their stories, in the absence of actual history, very nicely explained the end of a people, an age, a civilization, and laid the foundation for what followed. Their stories did something surprising: they made the facts unnecessary. Or, to put it another way, their stories became facts, as solid to build upon. This synergy makes sense. History, however true, needs interpreting, and fiction, however invented, arises from life and reflects it.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“In Greek epic, no one listens and no one gets along. Then there's hell to pay,”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“A man cleared his throat and said he in a deep voice,
“You won, Psoas, and you should have left it at that.”
It was Hades, Lord of the Underworld.
Psoas had meant to return to his tent,
but instead he was hoisted up in the air,
the dark lord holding him tightly by the scrotum,
his fist a hard ball and his knuckles white.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody