Quote by Amy A. Bartol

“I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?”

— Barbara Scrupski

“I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I…

— R.J. Anderson

“I know I could never deserve you, but I can try to make it up to you?”

— Miranda Kenneally

“Perfect is for people who don't know how to be real, and I don't want any of that. I want you.”

— Kate McCarthy

“What ever you think, you can make it real.”

— Hamzat haruna Ribah

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”

— Sarah Winman

“You,I think. I am terrified of you. Of how your kindness makes me like you in spite of myself. Of how you make me…

— Elizabeth Scott

“Turning all this over in my mind, I started to imagine another me somewhere, sitting in a bar, nursing a whiskey, without a care…

— Haruki Murakami

“It means so much to me when pretend becomes real.”

— John Frusciante

“But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real.”

— Kameron Hurley

“And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If I had no imagination, I would hate you. But I don’t want to be part of your reality.”

— Coco J. Ginger