Imagine Quotes - Page 24

• You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Way, Dangerous, Okay

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

  Craig Thompson

  Stars, Lying, Fall

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• Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Mean, Kissing

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Flower, World

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Cameron threw her hands up in frustration. “What is this so-called ‘look’?” Whatever it was, she was going to have to start taking extreme measures to guard against it. Amy grinned. “You know the Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom hasn’t eaten for days and he imagines Jerry looking like a ham? Kind of like that.

  Julie James

  Frustration, Hands, Cartoon

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• Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

  Matthew Quick

  Children, Teenager, Struggle

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• She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Loneliness, Reading

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Trying, Lucky, Without You

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• I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

  Cassandra Clare

  Laughter, Color, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1183, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sweet, Love You

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• Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.39, Penguin

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• It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Horse

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

  David Sedaris

  Children, Church, Netherlands

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• Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

  Melissa Bank

  Beautiful, Drinking, Gasoline

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.145, Penguin

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• Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.

  Lauren Graham

  Mean, Character, Men

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• Tell me you love me," I pleaded" "Gideon's eyes met mine. "You know I do" "Imagine if I i ever said the words to you. If you never heard them from me" "His chest expanded on a deep breath. "Crossfire

  Sylvia Day

  Eye, Gideon, Mets

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.692, Penguin

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• You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.

  Darynda Jones

  Son, Dating, Dollars

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Book, Character, Dark

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• Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?

  Kristin Cashore

  Mean, Laughing, Dying

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.106, Penguin

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.

  Makoto Shinkai

  Lying, Believe, Cutting

  "Fictional character: Takaki Toono". "5 Centimeters Per Second", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• His parents never talked about how they met, but when Park was younger, he used to try to imagine it. He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in the middle of the night. Not that they loved him--they were his parents, they had to love him. That they loved each other. They didn't have to do that.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Night, Parent, Trying

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.268, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dangerous, Imagine That

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• It's Russell Montgomery the Third, actually," said Rusty, still grinning. "But I'd be obliged if you keep that bit of information to yourself." "I don't imagine any of us cares enough to remember," Jared said.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Care, Information, Remember

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grandmother, Dating, Lovely

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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