Michael Ondaatje
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He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" 
And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on h... 
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's ... 
She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter. 
Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live."
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... 
No, listen. I've got it now. You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she's beautiful, she'... 
Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe... 
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo... 
She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than y... 
Michael,” she whispered, wishing he would kiss her. “I love the way you say my name. You’re th... 
I want you,” she said. “Naked.” 
She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second ... 
Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me."
Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She ... 
Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her... 
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you.... 
She smiles at me. It’s a crumpled thing, too small for her face. I remember when it used to shine ... 
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a... 
Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps;
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;
She,... 
She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... 
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she c... 
He laughed and was about to retort when she grabbed his collar and pulled him into her. She clamped ... 
Hey, Lauren?” he called, and she stopped so abruptly her bag slid off her shoulder. She caught it ... 
She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s... 
I love her face when she smiles. But it could be that her smile is a lie that she uses to hide her c... 
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet s... 
His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she... 
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
laughs with a harvest. 
She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, ... 
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ... 
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ... 
I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s... 
My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c... 
He missed you just as I did. He worried about you just as I worried. He looked for you. Tried to fin... 
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and... 
Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them.... 
Well, you know the form,’ Bedingfield says. ‘She lives in that room and has her ladies – those... 
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"
O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. 
Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 
She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and s... 
She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... 
She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought... 
I looked down at America, who was now poking her cheeks with her fingers, seemingly just so she coul... 
My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
Ember was watching me, green bright eyes in the shadows of the room. She crouched against the wall w... 
Well, her face was so wrinkled it looked like seven miles of bad road. She had so many gold teeth . ... 
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she co... 
Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person trigge... 
The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w... 
A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... 
She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... 
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork. 
Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear.
Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... 
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both... 
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged ... 
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. 
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
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When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se... 
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't... 
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. 
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. 
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on! 
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. 
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It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar... 
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N... 
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Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. 
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War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo... 
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. 
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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. 
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Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. 
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For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha... 
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. 
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