“All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows… — 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
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone… — 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
