Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to? — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was something about him she wanted to learn, grow into, and hide in, where she could turn away from being an… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“She could not forget the depth of her sleep, the lightness of her plummet.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“He had begun to fear her presence during the afternoon dismantling. He had to remove it, or she would be with him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“After that month in Cairo she was muted, read constantly, kept more to herself, as if something had occurred or she realized… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“At night, returning from work, Anil would slip out of her sandals and stand in the shallow water, her toes among the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
“The Time Around Scars: A girl whom I've not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
