Best Michael Ondaatje Lines
- We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. All
- How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled. Disassembled
- This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. Became
- Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet. Boy
- You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If… Assumed
- Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear… Armies
- He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light Air
- Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle Eye
- There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace… Ahead
- We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them. Expanded
- So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any… Any
- What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the… Along
- Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place. Clearer
- Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You… Bite
- Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. Absolutely
- I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too… Barriers
- And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity… Among
- How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized Capsized
- I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all. All
- The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Every Novel
- I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts. Funny
- Do you understand the sadness of geography? Geography
- She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to… Always Reflect
- The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if… Every Novel
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