Michael Ondaatje citáty a výroky
„Byla to naše velká spisovatelka. Moje hrdinka.“
o Mavis Gallantové
Originál: (en) She was our great writer. My hero.
Zdroj: [Legendary Montreal-born writer Mavis Gallant dead at age 91, montrealgazette.com, 2014-02-19, 2014-03-22, http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Legendary+Montrealborn+writer+Mavis+Gallant+dead/9520094/story.html]
Michael Ondaatje: Citáty anglicky
“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
Zdroj: The Cat's Table
“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“… the heart is an organ of fire.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“A novel is a mirror walking down a road”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”
Zdroj: The Cat's Table
“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”
Zdroj: In the Skin of a Lion
“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“Do you understand the sadness of geography?”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.”
Zdroj: The English Patient