“Aliganaya - 'the embrace during an intoxicated walk' or 'sudden arousal while driving over speed bumps” DesireLoversWalkingDriving Book:Handwriting Source: Handwriting
“I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.” RomanceLoversSeductionFemme FataleOccult Women Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.” NamesLovers Author:Michael Ondaatje
“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. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.” IfsMenBelieveBookCharacterBodyDiesNamesI BelieveWishRichRelationshipTreeBuildingLoversTasteMen And WomenRiversI Believe InLabelsMapsTribesCavesRichnessRich ManContainingCartography Author:Michael Ondaatje
“There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.” HumansHeartWarDoneLightFireHabitLoversBetrayalSentencesNervousOrgansChildlike Author:Michael Ondaatje
“A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out” KnowsWritingLoversBlind Author:Michael Ondaatje
“Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.” LongDesireLanguageLoversForgivingSelfishnessMotiveTranslateGuile Author:Michael Ondaatje
“If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.” IfsWritingPastDoorsLoversBedCatStrangerLockedFavouritePencilsNotebookLocked Doors Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
“In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.” HandsNamesWaterLoversBlueAbsenceDesertThroat Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
“Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.” WantSelfDesireBeliefLoversHusbandArmySurfaceDisappearSandHonourSuspicionDisbeliefParanoiaWomen WantDisappearanceSelf SufficiencySufficiencyBelow The SurfaceClaustrophobia Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
