Michael Ondaatje

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occupation.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero