Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dream, Children, Past

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011

• 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

  Children, Sleep, Order

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.35, Vintage

• The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Children, Distance

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