Michael Ondaatje
Related MICHAEL ONDAATJE MARKUS ZUSAK She kills her words, but somehow the feeling survives. And no matter where she buries them, he alway... SEEKEROHAN MARKUS ZUSAK She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips. EVELI ACOSTA RAINBOW ROWELL GUSTAVE FLAUBERT HOLLY BLACK MARKUS ZUSAK I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did... HEATHER CASEY HARUKI MURAKAMI BRENDA LEE She always had kind words for others and a huge bear hug that made you feel warm and loved. RACHEL STAFFORD Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG I wouldn't go back to ashes or dustAKANKSHA SINGH HELEN OYEYEMI something. MELISSA MARR Go away. I'm all right. , LAST WORDS I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the text... H.D. My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, ... DERRICK JENSEN CASSANDRA CLARE MARKUS ZUSAK She thinks about his words, hearing the truth of them. They resonate, as if a tuning fork aligned wi... KIMBERLY MORGAN She turned her brother into an errand boy. She gave the orders. He brought her what she wanted. PATRICIA LESSNERKRAUS DEAN KOONTZ ISRAELMORE AYIVOR RICK RIORDAN CHARLES DICKENS I just hope she believes I would never, ever intentionally lift her words. The last thing I ever wan... KAAVYA VISWANATHAN KIMBERLY DERTING I shall not waste any more words on you," she said coldly. "Your mind is too closed to hear them. ROBIN JARVIS J.R. WARD WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE UNKNOWN UNKNOWN SARAH DESSEN L.M. MONTGOMERY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS RICK RIORDAN EMILY MAGUIRE NICHOLAS SPARKS MARKUS ZUSAK ANAïS NIN KEN FOLLETT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve... JANE BADLER She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”TESS SHARPE GURU NANAK She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ... EUCHARISTA WARD She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity. DAKOTA CASSIDY J.R. WARD I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some thin... KELSEYLEIGH REBER She looks like a million dollars but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she's only got tw... ERIC LINKLATER Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h... HUBERT MARTIN SHERWOOD ANDERSON A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope �... RACHEL SKATVOLD KATHRYN STOCKETT Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not und... ERNEST GEORGE HENHAM CHARLES DICKENS She wasn't sure what she hoped her words would accomplish. She always fantasized that they would be ... LAUREN VALENCIA KATHRYN STOCKETT MARISSA MEYER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see ... WILLIAM COLLINS STEPHEN FRY She loved big parties. I had a lot of buddies, and they always wanted to hang out at my house becaus... DALE CHIHULY (She) tells him that she loves him, tells him that she wants to be with him again sexually, so she d... BARBARA MATTHEWS I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. JOAN MIRO MARKUS ZUSAK KATHERINE DUNHAM MELISSA MARR TAHEREH MAFI I really like words and I like to make them fun. Being an actor, teacher and a playwright, words are... GAY HAMMOND That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and w... BILAL TANWEER CAROL BURNETT STEPHENIE MEYER KATE DICAMILLO When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilder... JACLYN MORIARTY Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde... ALGERNON BLACKWOOD She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el... JAMES ROGERS ERNEST HEMINGWAY ERNEST HEMINGWAY ANNE FRANK They were people where the words 'rowdy' or 'beer-drinking' are putting it mildly. She had this eleg... HAROLD BROOKS MAX BARRY Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us. NINA GEORGE Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Words in the air blow away as soon as you say them, but words on paper last forever VINCE VAWTER Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercis... FRANCIS BACON SR. OSCAR WILDE He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter
in a lordly dish. BIBLE She was my enemy but her words would break your heart. She is a Vietnamese Anne Frank. I know this d... FRED WHITEHURST PLEASEFINDTHIS Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed ... ROSE SAPERSTEIN DYLAN THOMAS If you had to sum her up in a few words, you'd say she's caring, she's dedicated and she goes above ... DONNA ROYSE She said believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. I took away those words and will keep them ... DOMINIQUE DAWES CHUCK PALAHNIUK RICK RIORDAN XENOPHON I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the sayin... MALORIE BLACKMAN
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason... 
She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds... 
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. 
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... 
As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with t... 
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. 
I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wante... 
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swall... 
She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. 
Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... 
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or po... 
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Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lust... 
I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion. 
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Leave loved ones always with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. 
The words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. 
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf... 
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases. 
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. "I love you". She wasn't sure he could hear her -but if th... 
And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... 
Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel... 
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... 
She knows her Beloved, the Architect of karma, and she speaks words of ambrosial sweetness. 
He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she ... 
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And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind," she say, "you is smart. You is ... 
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"
Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell he... 
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She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them. 
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. 
It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach ... 
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." 
Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me. 
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Alice! You know I love you like a sister!"
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten... 
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Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. 
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. 
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