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Quotes About Imagination

Holy borrowing bibliophile, let's book!
~ Karen Marie Moning
Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.
~ Karen Marie Moning
How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?
~ Karen Marie Moning
The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black
~ Karen Marie Moning
When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'd teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I'd teach them the value of imagination. I'd teach them to play every bit as hard as they worked. And I'd teach them that all the brains in the world can't compensate for love.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes, I worry that there's not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality, that I'm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won't be able to maintain the firewall between them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
What was she going to do with two Drustans? A kinky part of her proposed something unmentionable and rather fascinating. Really, if they were both him , it wouldn't be like she was cheating on anyone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I love books, by the way, more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We're superheroes. He's not sticking to the script. If he keeps deviating, I'm jumping comic books.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I don't know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they're genetic memories, or messages from something divine.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Silence can't be interpreted. It can't be anticipated. It gives away nothing. And in most people, prolonged silence instills unease. We fill it up with the very best or worst of our imagination. As Ryodan said, the wise man is the silent one.
~ Karen Marie Moning
As I stare at the White Mansion and I know what parts of it look like inside—and I know there's no way I could know those things—I wonder if I'm a serious nutcase. If none of this is happening, because I'm really locked up in a padded cell somewhere, hallucinating. If so, I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.
~ Karen Marie Moning
939 Rêvemal Street
~ Karen Marie Moning
The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore. The
~ Karen Marie Moning
They say if you die in a dream, your heart stops in real life. I don't know if that's true. I've never known anyone who died in a dream to ask. Maybe because they're all dead.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I envision the possible scenarios, starting with the worst first. I like to do it that way so I can end on the happy thought and aim for it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
No nightmare could have conjured the nauseating food she'd choked down late last night, nor in any dream would she have subconsciously surrounded herself with such primitive amenities. Fertile though her imagination was, it was not sadistic.
~ Karen Marie Moning