Austin

“I found her message heart-breaking in its cautiousness.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“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

“Not that we are touched by such things as concern, even if false, when we are young. But now, in retrospect, I am touched.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight