Imagine Quotes - Page 22

• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Giving, Debt

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

  Liz Kessler

  Real, Secret, Trying

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• This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Crazy, Animal

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• Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Waiting, Promise

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• Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Memories, Dirty, Fighting

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• Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Lunch, People, Sci Fi

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• Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?

  Vera Nazarian

  Summer, Glasses, Ice

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• If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.

  Jefferson Bass

  Hero, Play, Giving

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• Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm just used to you being single." For some reason, that bothered me. "What, you don't think any guy would ever be interested in me?" Actually," said Adrian, sounding remarkably serious, "I can imagine lots of guys being interested in you.

  Richelle Mead

  Being Single, Thinking, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.62, Penguin

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• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  Norman Rush

  Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

  Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

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• We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?

  Neil Gaiman

  Taken, Mean, Winning

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot

  David Levithan

  Vocabulary, Names, Feelings

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

  Anna Godbersen

  Long, Without You, I Can

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• I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

  Paulo Coelho

  Rivers, Mirrors, Hands

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• gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

  David Levithan

  Wonder, Gravity, Saved

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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• She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

  Patricia Briggs

  Men, Joy, Said

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.119, Penguin

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• On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• When dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they’ll never be good enough, and there’s something seriously wrong with that.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• So, are you two going to get married already or waht?" I laughed. "Excuse me?" Carlee rolled her eyes. "Please. You don't even look at other guys. And I have never seen a guy that crazy about a girl before. You're like, his entire world." I shrugged, smiling. "I can't imagine ever finding someone better than Lend. He just--knows me. Totally. Everything. And miraculously he still likes me." "Likes? Girls, he head-over-heels-freaking-loves you." "It's mutual!

  Kiersten White

  Girl, Crazy, Love You

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• I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

  Juliet Marillier

  Two, Forests, Return

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.166, Macmillan

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• How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

  David Levithan

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.162, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.

  Karl Pilkington

  Dark, Thinking, Cake

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.131, Canongate Books

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• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• Max - you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Voice, Clouds

  "The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1)". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Heart, Messages

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