Michael Ondaatje Quotes about Sleep

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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

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.

Michael Ondaatje

Dream, Sleep, Years

FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Apr 20, 2013

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Michael Ondaatje

Heart, Mean, Sleep

Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

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