Quotes by : Michael Ondaatje

In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito....

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

There's water in my bonesa ghost of a chance

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.....

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have.....

I have been seeing dragons again.Last night, hunched on a beaver dam,one held a body like a badly held....

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox....

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got....

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was....

You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot....