#warlight

[vernicosa]

[vernicosa]

Touches me greatly.

[gldnsctn]

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[nervousladytraveler]

“We are foolish as teenagers. We say wrong things, do not know how to be modest, or less shy. We judge easily. But the only hope given us, although only in retrospect, is that we change. We learn, we evolve. What I am now was formed by whatever happened to me then, not by what I have achieved, but by how I got here. But who did I hurt to get here? Who guided me to something better? Or accepted the few small things I was competent at? Who taught me to laugh as I lied? And who was it made me hesitate about what I had come to believe?"

--Michael Ondaatje, Warlight.

[nervousladytraveler]

[elizabethanism]

“Roman history, Nathaniel. You need to read it. It is full of emperors who cannot tell even their children what catastrophe is about to occur, so they might defend themselves. Sometimes there is a necessity for silence.”

Michael Ondaatje

Warlight

[elizabethanism]

“We order our lives

with barely held stories.”

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

[elizabethanism]

“Most of the great battles are fought in the creases of topographical maps.”

-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight