articulate imagination

A collection of quotes; where the greats have put into words what could only exist in others' minds.

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Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”

Jandy Nelson (I’ll Give You the Sun) 

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"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

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I wonder at how many of us, feeling unsafe and unprotected, either end up running far away from everything we know and love, or staying and simply going mad. I have decided today that neither option is more noble than the other. They are merely different ways of coping, and we must each cope as best as we can.

Shani Mootoo (Cereus Blooms at Night)

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"Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken. A moment after or before the camera's shutter."

- Jackie Kay (Trumpet)

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"Sometimes you held somebody's hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact."

Rainbow Rowell (Fangirl) 

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"For the ones who are told to speak only when you are spoken to and then are never spoken to. Speak every time you stand so you do not forget yourself. Do not let a moment go by that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day and that there are enough gallons of blood to make you an ocean."

- Anis Mojgani (Shake the Dust)

[aequoris]

Oppression breeds the power that opposes it.

Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are (TED Talk)

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There's always somebody who wants to confiscate our humanity, and there are always stories that restore it. If we live out loud, we can trounce the hatred and expand everyone's lives.

- Andrew Solomon (Ted 2014)

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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

 - Andrew Solomon (TED 2014)

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Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.

- Seneca

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- Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park)

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“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

- Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor and Park)

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Listen: There’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.

E.E. Cummings

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It's one of the secrets of strength: we're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in service to ourselves.

- David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing)

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"We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust."

- David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing) 

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Masquerades don't require much imagination to initiate or comprehend; they happen everyday. But to assume that they will enhance one's chances at a happy ending, this requires the suspension of disbelief that carpets can fly."

Amor Towles (Rules of Civility)

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We can only pay witness to our waking reflection, which to one degree or another is always fretting or afraid. Maybe that's why young parents find it so beguiling to spy on their children when they're fast asleep.

Amor Towles (Rules of Civility)