Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: time



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

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: love ghosts the-past



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How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: heartbreak



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A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: gender-stereotypes



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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

Stichwörter: love romance novels michael-ondaatje the-english-patient



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-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

Stichwörter: love romance novel desert michael-ondaatje the-english-patient



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Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: love romance novels desert michael-ondaatje the-english-patient



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I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: love romance novel michael-ondaatje the-english-patient almasy katharine



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This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: words reading books literature escape



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...if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

Michael Ondaatje


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