#in

He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#indigo-spell #sydney-sage #adrian-ivashkov

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#emotions #poetry #poetry-quotes #scars #secrets

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things. ↗

— Jason Fried

#imagination

This is the difference between Eldric and me. Had it been my job to transform the garden, I would have removed the clothesline. Clotheslines always make me think of undergarments, and although I’ve never been to Japan, I don’t imagine a memory-whiff of undergarments is at all À la Japonaise. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#imagination

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#imagination #reality #imagination

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #god #physics #imagination

All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here, and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it. ↗

— Per Petterson

#imagination

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#journey #life #imagination

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#imagination