Imagined Quotes
921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors
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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
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The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me…
— Richelle Mead
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We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared…
— Patti Smith
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Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined…
— Carson McCullers
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If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.
— Penelope Lively
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As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she…
— Tao Lin
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A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was…
— Suzanne Collins
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Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that…
— Veronica Roth
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This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody,…
— Jandy Nelson
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Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to…
— Libba Bray
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I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little…
— Paullina Simons
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should,…
— Laini Taylor
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Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're…
— Lauren Oliver
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.
— Sarah Dessen
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Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud…
— Anna Godbersen
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
— Maxwell Maltz
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Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there…
— Nicole Krauss
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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion…
— Jodi Picoult
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She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal…
— Brandon Mull
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The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name across Qhuinn's shoulders,…
— J R Ward
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Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream.…
— Alice Hoffman
Who Wrote These Imagined Quotes
723 authors contributed a total of 921 Imagined Quotes, led by these top contributors: