Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

Quote by Michael Ondaatje

: /ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː/; born September 12 1943) OC is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet. Philip Michael Ondaatje (pron.