Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, which was adapted as the 1996 film of the same name...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 September 1943
CountryCanada
falling-in-love fall doe
How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
writing lovers blind
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
falling-in-love smart brave-new-world
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? 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.
falling-in-love fall
I promised to tell you how one falls in love.
names lovers
There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.
love heart fire
...the heart is an organ of fire.
altered being-loved
I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.
eye love-is tears
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
love-is use
Love is the use one makes of another.
falling-in-love dark mirrors
She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.
love heart loss
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
our-love want century
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
falling-in-love mean thinking
Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
falling-in-love believe one-direction
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.