Quotes About Imagination

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.

Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

A story is a strong bridge across the night.

So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head.

Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

I have no idea what Paloma looks like-what she'll be like. I have no idea what to expect. I should've asked more questions. I should've used the last ten hours to grill Chay until he broke-until he confided every dark and dirty secret Paloma is hiding. Instead,I chose to eat.And read.And dream about some phantom boy with smooth brown skin,icy-blue eyes, and long glossy black hair-a boy I've never even met in real life. Lot of good it did me.

I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so perfectly made for each other, their love transcends time. Wishing I could climb inside those pages and live there forever, preferring their story to mine.

Imagine it right there before you. See its texture, shape, and color. Believe it exists right before you. Feel it, see it, touch it, accept it, manifest it!

Like poetry that is recited but never written down, more powerful because it is held solely in the mind.

If a woman is truly clever, she can find freedom even in the most restrictive circumstances." She tapped the side of her head. "One just needs a little imagination and a little fortitude.

No se vestía para atraer miradas de aprobación de su marido ni de ninguna multitud, sino para conformarse a un propio ideal secreto. Una fantasía tomada de una novela decimonómica, una imagen tanto intemporal como perenne. Una heroína romántica de su propia creación.

Mi cabeza está colmada de sueños, mi corazón está colmado de fantasmas.

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

Y las palabras que ella me dijo hicieron eco en mis oídos: "Cada libro tiene un viaje propio".

If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

No. We don't have gills, and we're not mer-people. Damn, do all you people live your lives believing everyone you meet stepped out of the pages of a comic book? Please. I'd kick Aquaman's ass.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

Le propre des grands livres est que chaque lecteur en est l'auteur.

People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.

If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.

Comme les rêves sont cruels, qui nous laissent entrevoir des merveilles pour mieux nous en priver !

Mi supuesta supercapacidad mental era sobre todo un formidable instrumento de placer: tenía hambre y me creaba universos que, aunque no me saciaran, desencadenaban placer allí donde antes había hambre.