Believe Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“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

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

“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

“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“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

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

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

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

— Michael Ondaatje

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

— Michael Ondaatje

“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

“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

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