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“The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.”
Michael Ondaatje
“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, The English Patient“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“-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, The English Patient“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names... Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts and cultures, left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.”
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