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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Words, Passion, literary, Books, Love, Interest
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: heart, Love, Loving, Sadness, expression
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Love, Places, travel, Nostalgia
“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Love, Fall in love, Falling In Love, Loving, love & life
“...the heart is an organ of fire.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: heart, Love, Feelings, Passion, emotions, Life
“What began it all was the bright bone of a dream.”
— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family
Tagged: Beginning, Dream, Faith, Chasing Dreams
“Once a friend had told me that it was only when I was drunk that I seemed to know exactly what I wanted. 

And so, two months later, in the midst of the farewell party in my growing wildness—dancing, balancing a wine glass on my forehead and falling to the floor twisting round and getting up without letting the glass tip, a trick which seemed only possible when drunk and relaxed—I knew I was already running.”
— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family
Tagged: My Favorites, Running, Running Away, Being Drunk, How We Grow, How We Change, Leaving
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