Jodi Picoult

"There are two kinds of love...in the safe kind you look for someone who's exactly like you. It's what most folks settle for. But then there's the other kind of love. Everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that's a perfect fit. You'll search for it forever, if you have to. And if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so right, you start to tear at your own seams, thinking, maybe I could look just as perfect. But then, of course, when you try to get close to their other half, you don't fit anymore. That kind of love...you come out of it a different person than you were when you started."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed ..."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you."

Jodi Picoult

Imagination

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Theodor Geisel

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Maya Angelou

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; get my work done; try to love somebody; and have the courage to accept their love in return".

Maya Angelou

David Icke

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground".

David Icke