Funny quotes Quote by Louise Blackwick

“Some things worked far better in imagination than reality. In imagination, she was intrepid and resourceful; in reality she wished she were home, wrapped…

— Lauren Willig

“All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a…

— Tamora Pierce

“Reality became something of the past five minutes ago, replaced with a dirty fantasy she’d conjured up in her bed late at night.”

— V. Theia

“Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in…

— Tamera Alexander

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s no medieval…

— Joe Fassler

“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard, real life:…

— George Eliot

“Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it…

— Sir Walter Scott

“His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose…

— Mervyn Peake

“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from…

— Tessa Dare

“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s lives. She…

— Tolstoy

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra