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.


The English Patient (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307776624

Michael Ondaatje Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...