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• I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique.” He grinned at me. “The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Running, Real

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• Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.

  Tahir Shah

  Country, Shoes, One Day

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.29, Random House

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• I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

  John Green

  Would Be, Hearing, Loud

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

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• And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thinking, Opposites, Cards

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jun 24, 2013

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• What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Smell, Fire, Heaven

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• Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

  Deb Caletti

  Confused, Eye, Simple

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• People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

  Anne Tyler

  Love, Next Day, Water

  Anne Tyler (2004). “Back When We Were Grownups”

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• You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Who I Am, Like You

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• Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

  Jodi Picoult

  Would Be, Knows, Series

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to me worried that i was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. And while he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.

  Kiera Cass

  Sweet, Hurt, Home

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• The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

  Derek Landy

  Goal, World, Might

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Imagination, Learning Experience

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The first step to success it's to imagine it

  Pete Hautman

  Firsts, Steps, First Steps

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• Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline

  Judith McNaught

  Laughing, Enjoy Life, Married

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• Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

  Laini Taylor

  Sharks, People, Fetus

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Chaos, Isolation

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• So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

  John Irving

  Mother, Dream, Brother

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Offering, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Littles, Too Much, Wrong Time

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Hands, Idols

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.11, Fig

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• It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Play, Effort, Scrabble

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Giving, Debt

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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