#nat

We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered. ↗

— James Patterson

#maxride #imagination

I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#imagination

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#imagination #writing #imagination

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #power #imagination

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#imagine #need #reader #imagination

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#imagination

As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#spade #vampire #imagination

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

#jace-wayland #imagination

I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is alive. We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you’re saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean? ↗

— John Green

#imagination

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#depression #drugs #pharmaceuticals #psychiatry #psychology