Famous Michael Ondaatje Quotes

  • There’s water in my bonesa ghost of a chance – Michael Ondaatje

    There’s water in my bonesa ghost of a chance– Michael Ondaatje

  • I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself. – Michael Ondaatje

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

  • -I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it,damn you! – Michael Ondaatje

    -I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it,damn you!– Michael Ondaatje

  • How can you smile as though your whole life hasn’t capsized – Michael Ondaatje

    How can you smile as though your whole life hasn’t capsized– Michael Ondaatje

  • We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders. – Michael Ondaatje

    We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.– Michael Ondaatje

  • Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. – Michael Ondaatje

    Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.– Michael Ondaatje

  • The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. – Michael Ondaatje

    The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he’s with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.– Michael Ondaatje

  • She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. – Michael Ondaatje

    She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.– Michael Ondaatje

  • The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. – Michael Ondaatje

    The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.– Michael Ondaatje

  • What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. – Michael Ondaatje

    What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.– Michael Ondaatje