Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moon, Men, Omission

• Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Heart, Night

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.39, Vintage

• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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