“The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by… — 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
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“July 1936 There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“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
“The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.” — 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
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later… — 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
