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  • Until I began living, moment to moment, the heartlifting and heartaching work of loving and nurturing my own daughter, I had only the faintest experience and faintest understanding of what it meant to be fully powerful as a woman.

    The Mother of This Bad Mother | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • Don't read this for the story, which comes to an abrupt and inconclusive end; read it for the sensual,Hemingway-esque textures of Ondaatje's France and California, and the heartaching love stories he tells so subtly and well.

    Archive 2007-06-22 Book Nerd 2007

  • The cover of Us Weekly reads BRITNEY & JUSTIN: DID SHE BETRAY HIM? and the story inside portrays a heartaching party girl in dire if vague collapse.

    Newsmakers 2007

  • Don't read this for the story, which comes to an abrupt and inconclusive end; read it for the sensual,Hemingway-esque textures of Ondaatje's France and California, and the heartaching love stories he tells so subtly and well.

    Honeymoon Hiatus, Pocket Reviews, and a Romantic Question Book Nerd 2007

  • ‘Would it not be better that you leave me now? — not for my pleasure, but that there may arise no distressing tales about us before we know — how to act in this — this’ — (she smiled faintly at him) ‘heartaching extremity!’

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • Until I began living, moment to moment, the heartlifting and heartaching work of loving and nurturing my own daughter, I had only the faintest experience and faintest understanding of what it meant to be fully powerful as a woman.

    The Mother of This Bad Mother 2006

  • Until I began living, moment to moment, the heartlifting and heartaching work of loving and nurturing my own daughter, I had only the faintest experience and faintest understanding of what it meant to be fully powerful as a woman.

    Archive 2006-05-14 2006

  • It's a heartaching thing, to watch your folks go through it.

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2005 2005

  • But it was -- it's a heartaching -- my heart was broken.

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2005 2005

  • Life is a resoundingly sensual landscape, filled with heartaching beauty each and every day.

    Mama Gena’s Marriage Manual Regena Thomashauer 2004

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