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- Michael Ondaatje
- 1992
- “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.
- “We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
- “You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else.
- “All I ever wanted was a world without maps.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.
20 of the best book quotes from The English Patient. “You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate.”. “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.
- She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
- He sits with his hands below the table, watching the girl eat. He still prefers to eat alone, though he always sits with Hana during meals.
- At lunch there is Caravaggio’s avuncular glance at the objects on the blue handkerchief. There is probably some rare animal, Caravaggio thinks, who eats the same foods that this young soldier eats with his right hand, his fingers carrying it to his mouth.
- By 1932, Bagnold was finished and Madox and the rest of us were everywhere. Looking for the lost army of Cambyses. Looking for Zerzura.
Quotes from The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje · 320 pages. Rating: (95.9K votes) Get the book. “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”. ― Michael Ondaatje, quote from The English Patient. Copy text.
Explanation of the famous quotes in The English Patient, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
The English Patient's quote, "My scars are maps of where I have been, nothing more," encapsulates the speaker's profound understanding of the physical and emotional wounds they carry. Symbolically, the scars represent a journey, each mark telling a story of past experiences and hardships endured.
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