I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in…

“I held a precious, beautiful butterfly in my hands but let it get away.”

— Jessica Ingro

“She imagined she'd like to explain that it's difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always been there…

— Fredrik Backman

“She imagined what it must be like to have Charlie's mind - to believe that red shoes are faster then other shoes; to believe,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I always imagined myself, like, 'OK, one day I'll have a kid,' and then finally it's here. It's just like, for the first time,…

— Artem Chigvintsev

Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD…

— Rick Riordan

“I realized that leaving wouldn't be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I…

— Ransom Riggs

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take…

— Susanna Kearsley

“I've learnt that if you're careful, you can hold a butterfly in your hand. And that even if it's been trapped, frightened, in a…

— Lisa Heathfield

“I’D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD die — though I’d had reason enough in the last few months — but even…

— Stephenie Meyer

“I’ve imagined you like this…many times…naked, sharing my bed,” he rasped, the fervent words warming her, making her relax. “You have no idea.” “I…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Sometimes, Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not…

— Brandon Sanderson

She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at…

— Michael Cunningham

“She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined, like a…

— Graham Greene

“In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.”

— Carl Sagan