Anil's Ghost

by Michael Ondaatje

All that was left of law was a belief in an eventual revenge towards those who had power.

A person will walk through a hundred doors to carry out the whims of the dead,

There seemed to be no difference for him between privacy and friendship with acquaintances. Later she would read that this was the central quality of a monster.

The writer Martha Gellhorn had said, ‘The best relationship is with someone who lives five blocks away with a great sense of humour and who is preoccupied with his work.’

What were the missing organs in men that made them stroll through life as courteously unfaithful, nonverbal creatures?

There are always a lot of suicides during a war. At first that seems strange, but you learn to understand it.