Best Michael Ondaatje Quotations
- Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy Crazy
- Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything. Drop
- Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before… Able
- He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to? Been
- So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,… Bombing
- How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or… Accident
- I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… Ask
- For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear… Childhood
- Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the… Alone
- This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. Each
- Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again Cut
- From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. Either Find
- 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 into privilege. They… Afford
- Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes. Deeper
- She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is… Breathe
- A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,… Body
- Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a… Across
- Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it… Fall
- A novel is a mirror walking down a road Down
- A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it… Attached
- In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be… Bars
- The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given… All
- She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back… Awaking
- The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I… Earth
- Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart. Any
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