My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes … - Yann Martel

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.