Pi Patel Quotes in Life of Pi (2012)

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Pi Patel Quotes:

  • Santosh Patel: We will sail like Columbus.

    Pi Patel: But Columbus was looking for India!

  • Pi Patel: Above all: don't lose hope.

  • Pi Patel: He was such an evil man. But worse still, he brought the evil out in me. I have to live with that.

  • Santosh Patel: You think tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.

    Pi Patel: Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.

  • Pi Patel: For castaways who must share their lifeboats with large, dangerous carnivores, it is advisable to establish a territory as your own. The following course of action is recommended. Step one: Choose a day when waves are moderate, but regular. Step two: with the lifeboat facing into the waves, making the ride as comfortable as possible, blow your whistle soothingly. Step three: turn the boat sideways to the waves, accompanied by harsh, aggressive use of the whistle. With sufficient repetition, the animal will associate the sound of the whistle with the discomfort of seasickness. Similar methods have long been used by circus trainers, though they generally lack access to rough seas.

    [Pi climbs onto the boat and urinates at the end of the tarp]

    Pi Patel: MINE! You understand? Yours, mine! You understand?

    [Richard Parker sniffs, then turns and urinates in Pi's face]

    Pi Patel: [v.o] Step four: disregard steps one through three.

  • Pi Patel: [voice over] I never thought a small piece of shade could bring me so much happiness. That a pile of tools, a bucket, a knife, a pencil, might become my greatest treasures. Or that knowing Richard Parker was here might ever bring me peace. In times like these, I remember that he has as little experience of the real world as I do. We were both raised in a zoo by the same master. Now we've been orphaned, left to face our ultimate master together. Without Richard Parker, I would have died by now. My fear of him keeps me alert. Tending to his needs gives my life purpose.

  • Pi Patel: I can eat the biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If I don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.

  • Pi Patel: [holding out oar to floating orangutan] Welcome to Pi's Ark.

  • Pi Patel: [during a massive storm, Pi observes a terrified Richard Parker being thrown around by waves crashing into the boat] Why are you scaring him? I lost my family! I lost everything! I surrender! What more do you want?

  • Pi Patel: [writing on the lifeboat] Words are all I have left to hang on to. Everything's all mixed up, fragmented, can't tell daydreams, nightdreams from reality anymore.

  • Pi Patel: [on killing a fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.

  • Pi Patel: Hunger can change everything you thought you knew about yourself.

  • Pi Patel: [facing a storm on the lifeboat] Richard Parker, come out you have to see this! It's beautiful!

  • Pi Patel: God? I give myself to you. I am your vessel. Whatever comes, I want to know. Show me.

  • Pi Patel: It's a thunderstorm. Let's go watch.

    Ravi Patel: Are you crazy? We will get hit by lightning.

    Pi Patel: No, we won't. It will hit the bridge first.

    Ravi Patel: Don't tempt a storm, Pi.

  • Pi Patel: [to starving, semi-conscious tiger in lifeboat] We're dying, Richard Parker. I'm sorry.

  • Pi Patel: Then the ship sank. What else do you want from me?

    Younger Insurance Investigator: A story that won't make us look like fools.

    Older Insurance Investigator: We need a simpler story for our report. One our company can understand. A story we can all believe.

    Pi Patel: [pause] So, a story without things you've never seen before.

    Older Insurance Investigator: That's right.

    Pi Patel: Without surprises, without animals, or islands?

    Older Insurance Investigator: Yes, the truth.

    Writer: [back to present, to Adult Pi Patel] So, what did you do?

    Adult Pi Patel: I told them another story.

  • Pi Patel: What does this mean?

    [makes bowl shape with hands]

    Pi Patel: In the dance, you went from pataka which means the forest. And then you did, and you did... samputa, which means something that is hidden. And after that you did this... And then you did chatura. But at the very end, you did this.

    [makes bowl shape with hands again]

    Pi Patel: None of the other dancers did that. What did you mean? The god of love is hiding in the forest?

    Anandi: No, that also means the lotus flower.

    Pi Patel: Lotus flower is hiding in the forest? Why would a lotus flower hide in the forest?

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