Quotes About Michael Ondaatje

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

I had never thought words erotic. Sometimes I really do like to talk more than fuck. Sentences. Buckets of this buckets of that and then buckets of this again. The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. Whereas you can't fuck yourself into a corner." "That's a man talking," muttered Hana.

In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world.

Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork.

plucked the antlered hat of fire from his head.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.