Richard Parker Quotes

″[W]ithout Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story.”

“I could not abandon Richard Parker. To leave him would mean to kill him. He would not survive the first night.”

“I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously.”