Michael Ondaatje

From this point on in our lives, she had whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #romance #the-english-patient #war

A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#stereotypes

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient #change

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#katharine #love #michael-ondaatje #novel #romance

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#potential #romantic-potential #sexual-tension #romantic

Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#lyrical #family

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#place #safely #settled #still #us

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence