“Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Truth disappears with history and gossip tells us in the end nothing of personal relationships. There are stories of elopements, unrequited love,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There are stories of elopements, unrequited love, family feuds and exhausting vendettas, which everyone was drawn into, had to be involved with.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love?” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“And Hana moves possibly in the company that is not her choice. She, at even this age, thirty-four, has not found her… — 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 Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
