Imagined Quotes

921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. — John Green
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what… — Amy Tan
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into… — Kim Edwards
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… — Anne Lamott
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a… — Annie Barrows
It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in… — John Fowles
Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same… — George Orwell
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But… — Susane Colasanti
It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less -- even a vague pathetic facsimile of less… — Greg Behrendt
She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with… — Paulo Coelho
...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist. — Dean Koontz
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and… — Jane Austen
So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you. The person who… — William P. Young
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and… — Jerome Groopman
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where… — Mitch Albom
Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is… — Julio Cortazar
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,… — Sylvia Plath
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking… — David Benioff
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… — Guy de Maupassant
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes

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