Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

• Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

  "The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Sex, Night

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Oct 31, 2016

• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

• A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

• Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Half, Pages

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Running in the Family”, p.15, Vintage

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