Quote by Marcus Zusak

“For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let…

— Markus Zusak

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He has gotten very tired of everyone thinking the worst of him. He has decided to actively encourage them to do so. It is…

— Laini Taylor

“Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and all the…

— Michael Ende

“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to…

— Kevin Henkes

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“This was something he certainly had not done. I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives…

— Margaret Atwood

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald