#nation

We don't enter the future, we create it. And what we create, what we imagine ↗

— Ramachandra Budhihal

#life #science #imagination

During this journey I realized that my robe had fallen open and he could see my nightie. Pale lavender satin, short, hitting me at the upper thighs but there was a three-inch hem of smoky gray lace below that. The same lace was at the bodice over the cups of material covering my breasts. The nightie fit close at my chest and midriff but there was room to move around my hips and thighs. It was nowhere near as risqué as Kenzie’s teddy. It left something to the imagination and that was good, unless you had an imagination. Carefully, I pulled the edges of my robe together and his eyes speeded up to hit mine and I knew the instant they did, without any doubt, he had an imagination. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#joe #violet #imagination

No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination. ↗

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

#imagination

One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative. ↗

— Jesse Thompson

#life #imagination

Merris, this is Mae and Jamie." Merris unbent slightly. "Alan's young lady, I presume?" Mae actually blushed. "Er - no." "Young Nicholas's, then," Merris said wearily. "What they all see in you, I cannot imagine." Nick leaned against the stall ansd smirked at her. "You'll never know until you try. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#mae #nick #imagination

I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gesture is therefore perfect when it is performed unbeknownst to the subject being photographed. From this gesture derive all photographs whose principle (or better whose alibi) is “shock”; for the photographic “shock” consists less in traumatizing than in revealing what was so well hidden that the actor himself was unaware or unconscious of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#imagination

En las ligeras todas las cosas son visible, pero en la oscuridad, muchas cosas son imaginable. Translated: In the light all things are visible, but in the dark many things are imaginable. ↗

— Taabia Dupree

#taabia-dupree #the-temp #imagination

... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13] ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#imagination

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked. ↗

— Orna Ross

#imagination #imagination

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it ↗

— Jason Calder

#imagination