#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

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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient

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

— Michael Ondaatje

#katharine #love #michael-ondaatje #novel #romance

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient #change

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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From this point on in our lives, she had whispered to him earlier, we will either find or lose our souls. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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