#magi

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#hope #imagination

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#youth #imagination

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#imagination

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#imagination

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#spirit #wuthering-heights #imagination

What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . . ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #imagination

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#literature #reading #words #imagination

My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic." Forever Frost (Frost Series 2) ↗

— Kailin Gow

#forever-frost #frost-series #ya-fantasy #young-adult #imagination

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#imagination

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind. ↗

— Remez Sasson

#morning #imagination