#ld

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#balls #court #fuzz #good #hard

Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress? ↗

— Meg Cabot

#john-hayden #underworld #death

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another. ↗

— Amy Plum

#escape #imagination-reading #read #universe #world

Children see magic because they look for it. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#children #imagination #magic #search #imagination

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#imagination #limits #reality #world

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#imagination #matilda #dreams

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#story-people #imagination

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#human #imagination #soul #world #imagination

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#ono #small #universe #world #yoko