373 Quotes by Michael Ondaatje

There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.

Everyone has their own marriages, she thinks.

Because what she wanted, I suspect, was a world she could fully participate in, even if it meant not being fully and safely loved.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you’re not.

Githa Hariharan’s fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

Kirpal’s left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

When Handel had his breakdown, he was, according to my opera-loving mother, “the ideal man” in that state, honourable, loving the world he could no longer be a part of, even if the world was a place of continual war.

No story is ever told just once.

I found her message heart-breaking in its cautiousness.