For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
("The English Patient")
More Quotes from Michael Ondaatje:
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.Michael Ondaatje
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.
Michael Ondaatje
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.
Michael Ondaatje
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
Michael Ondaatje
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
Michael Ondaatje
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.
Michael Ondaatje
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Place Quotes, Soul QuotesThe President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
Charles Rangel
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
Dean Kamen
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
Brian May