Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image ““They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.”” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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“Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.” — Laura Zigman Copy Share Image
“The world break everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As I climb'd the mountain's side, Where the Lake and Valley meet, All my country's power and pride Lay in ruins at my feet.” — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
“That they were all at least a little broken, because they lived in a broken world.” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.” — Craig Johnson 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
