Quotes About Imagination

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell

I don't remember what book it was - it almost doesn't matter, because the sensation of being read to is so much more powerful than any individual story.

I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that is how it is, this is how it will be.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

Because we can't stop the weltschmerz, we can't stop imagining the world as it might be. Which is awesome! It is my favorite thing about us!

We're going to have to play pretend, Sam says. He has no idea how good I am at playing pretend. But I guess that's a different kind of pretend, a pretend that can't be obvious. Here we revel in the pretend, laugh at it, become children within it. We walk rings around the carousel horses, trying to find our perfect steeds. We dangle at the bottom of the Ferris wheel and pretend that it is taking us up, up, up. I allow myself to relax. I allow myself to enjoy it. I even get lost in it.

Se podría decir que escribí toda una novela sólo para cambiar el final de una canción.

If you were a country, I said, what would your national anthem be? I meant a pre-existing song -- What a Wonderful World or Que Sera, Sera or something to make it a joke, like Hey Ya! (I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.)

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body. Not the real Beyoncé. But a body remarkably like hers. All the curves in all the right places.

If I didn't have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves.

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred.

when I look out a window I wish for you on the other side even if you're not there I can see you in the clouds

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possibly. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be -A

Why try to angle together the wall souvenirs of our new-to-New-York lives, when we could invent new hieroglyphs to represent us?

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you loves sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

Let all the dreamers wake the nation.

Todas las personas somos una posibilidad. Los románticos empedernidos son quienes más cuenta se dan de ello; pero incluso para los demás, la única manera de seguir adelante es ver a cada persona como una posibilidad

I study the people in the class, in a somewhat dreamy math-soundtracked daze.

This is what love does. It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible.

É isso que o amor faz: que você queira reescrever o mundo. Que você queira escolher os personagens, construir o cenário, dirigir o roteiro. A pessoa que você ama senta de frente para você, e você quer fazer tudo que estiver ao alcance para tornar isso possível, infinitamente possível. E quando são apenas vocês dois a sós numa sala, você pode fingir que é assim que as coisas são, que é assim que serão

Knit me a sweater out of your best stories. Not the day's petty injustices. Not the glimmer of a seven-eighths-forgotten moment from your past. Not something that somebody said to somebody, who then told it to you. No, I want a yarn. It doesn't have to be true. "Okay," you say. "Do you want to know how I met you?" I nod. "It was on the carousel. You were on the pink horse, I was on the yellow. You