Imagination Quote by Banana Yoshimoto

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a…

— Joan London

“Something bloomed right then and there in the small dark space between us. I didn’t know what it was, but I knew enough to…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“She liked to keep her scent a mystery”

— Isaac Marion

“Imagination, she figured, just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It only knew how to dampen or augment what…

— Hugh Howey

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in…

— Terry Pratchett

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard

“My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent,…

— Virginia Woolf

“But I am not going to give every detail. Some things lose their fragrance when opened to the air, and there are stirrings of…

— John Beevers

“So grown women could smell it again, that chemical, flowery fug. That’s how badly people wanted it—to know that their lives had happened, that…

— Emma Cline

“There was a mystery about it. You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain—the actual meeting; horribly painful as often not; yet in absence,…

— Virginia Woolf