--- title: "11 Hands Quotes By Michael Ondaatje" description: "11 Hands quotes by Michael Ondaatje. Plus more from Michael Ondaatje and more Hands sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/michael-ondaatje-940_books_i-think-precision-in-writing-goes-hand-i_2607016.png" --- > [I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/i-think-precision-in-writing-goes-hand-in-hand-with-not-trying-to-say/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/michael-ondaatje-940_books_i-think-precision-in-writing-goes-hand-i_2607016.png) > [A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/a-man-in-a-desert-can-hold-absence-in-his-cupped-hands-knowing-it-is/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/michael-ondaatje-940_absence_a-man-in-a-desert-can-hold-absence-in-hi_560596.png) > [Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/her-hand-touched-me-at-the-wrist-if-i-gave-you-my-life-you-would-drop/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/michael-ondaatje-940_hands_her-hand-touched-me-at-the-wrist-if-i-ga_554643.png) > [Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/water-is-the-exile-carried-back-in-cans-and-flasks-the-ghost-between/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/michael-ondaatje-940_exile_water-is-the-exile-carried-back-in-cans_2373836.png) > [In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/in-the-desert-the-most-loved-waters-like-a-lover-s-name-are-carried-2/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/michael-ondaatje-940_absence_in-the-desert-the-most-loved-waters-like_1769761.png) > [Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/some-people-you-just-had-to-embrace-in-some-way-or-another-had-to/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5a/michael-ondaatje-940_business_some-people-you-just-had-to-embrace-in-s_1456351.png) > [Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/kirpal-s-left-hand-swoops-down-and-catches-the-dropped-fork-an-inch/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/michael-ondaatje-940_behinds_kirpal-s-left-hand-swoops-down-and-catch_3085123.png) > [She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/she-lights-a-match-in-the-dark-hall-and-moves-it-onto-the-wick-of-the/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/michael-ondaatje-940_breathe_she-lights-a-match-in-the-dark-hall-and_2516541.png) > [A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/a-man-in-a-desert-can-hold-absence-in-his-cupped-hands-knowing-it-is-2/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/870/michael-ondaatje-940_absence_a-man-in-a-desert-can-hold-absence-in-hi_1030424.png) > [Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/her-father-had-taught-her-about-hands-about-a-dog-s-paws-whenever-her/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/michael-ondaatje-940_animal_her-father-had-taught-her-about-hands-ab_54949.png) > [You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/you-can-see-that-the-care-he-took-defiling-the-beauty-he-had-forced/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/michael-ondaatje-940_acid_you-can-see-that-the-care-he-took-defili_1441251.jpg) ## Other authors on Hands ## More by Michael Ondaatje > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/in-spite-of-this-our-table-s-status-on-the-oronsay-continued-to-be/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/he-will-hear-the-rain-before-he-feels-it-a-clicking-on-the-dry-grass/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/whenever-her-father-was-alone-with-a-dog-in-a-house-he-would-lean/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/those-who-had-risked-everything-at-a-riverbend-on-a-left-turn-and-so/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/all-over-the-world-there-must-be-people-like-us-anna-had-said-then/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/her-father-had-taught-her-about-hands-about-a-dog-s-paws-whenever-her/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/what-is-interesting-and-important-happens-mostly-in-secret-in-places/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [There's more danger in the violence you don't face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/there-s-more-danger-in-the-violence-you-don-t-face/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/from-this-point-on-she-whispered-we-will-either-find-or-lose-our-souls/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/you-know-it-is-the-most-relaxed-thing-when-you-when-you-sit-with-a/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/there-was-no-control-except-the-mood-of-his-power-and-it-is-for-this/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/you-re-getting-everyone-s-point-of-view-at-the-same-time-which-for-me/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/i-see-the-poem-or-the-novel-ending-with-an-open-door/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/the-time-around-scars-a-girl-whom-i-ve-not-spoken-to-or-shared-coffee/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) > [“- Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/daca-ti-as-incredinta-viata-mea-ai-scapa-o-pe-jos-nu-i-asa/) [Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hands/michael-ondaatje/#itemlist", "name": "11 Hands Quotes By Michael Ondaatje", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. 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