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Way Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange…
- He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he…
- He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If…
- Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
- 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…
- 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…
- Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
- 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…
- 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…
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