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“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think
One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium on any new federal government hiring. That got the “Incredible Shrinking Governmentâ€� meal simmering. Veto stamps branded into any Congressional salary increase proposal added a certain singed aroma.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice.  Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“The orderly brandished a hunting knife from a sheath at his waist and sliced open the prisoner’s throat with it.  Warm blood cascaded out of the prisoner’s throat, some of it spraying the captain’s uniform.  The orderly waited for the prisoner to bleed to death before cutting the head clean off.  Within a few minutes, the muscle that the prisoner built on his body was carved out and thrown on the grill.  After the meat cooled, the orderly put the human steaks in front of the captain for dinner.  As the captain ate each buttery piece, he couldn’t help but compliment the orderly for a job well-done.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“She tossed him a small mirror so that he could see the results, and what he saw horrified him.  The boiling concoction left a deep trail of burnt skin that stretched from the crown of his head all the way to his chin â€� almost like an artificial sluice that burned his flesh to form a large rivulet that ran down the center of his face.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“He totally lost it. Here comes the apoplexy.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Conner howled in pain, causing Shayna to quickly dismiss her own. Shayna dismissed her own discomfort. 
"Sorry about that. I guess I've smelled worse-like fur-lined boots that have been worn without socks. Now, that is pretty foul and�"
"Get them off! Take them off now! It burns!" shrieked Conner. He
attempted to jerk away, but Shayna held firm.
"I can't, Conner. You heard what Rileau said. I just can't!"
"It hurts really bad, like so unbelievably bad," he whined.
"I's going to be okay," she whispered repeatedly.

Shayna began humming and cooing as if he were a small child. She tried hard to block out his moans and focused on rocking him.  She held the wad of leaves firmly on the oozing blisters. She knew her friend was in pain, but she would not risk losing him, especially when she realized she could no longer hear Seneca screaming. The only sounds she heard came from Conner as he whimpered quietly next to her. Warm stinging tears cascaded down her cheeks, but she didn't dare wipe them, as she refused to lessen the pressure on the leaf compress.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Dominion of Four

“When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Stoic,
She lives most heroic,
smiling with ruby, moistened lips
once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
― Roman Payne

“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.”
― Julia Roberts on Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman"

“Some 5,000 of Wallace’s 8,050 bird specimens he collected during eight years in the Malay Archipelago were actually collected by Ali. None are named after the young man.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“We know quite a bit about Alfred Russel Wallace, one of the great figures of modern science. But we know relatively little about Ali, Wallace’s faithful companion who supported him during much of his eight-year sojourn in the Malay Archipelago in the mid-19th century.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned to collect and mount specimens. He took on responsibility for organizing travel. He nursed Wallace during many bouts of fever and injury.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?”
― Carolyn Tody, Author and Artist, A Whimsical Holiday for Children

“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”
― Ashish Patel

“One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.”
― Jesse Thompson

“Imagination is the engine of creation. As we imagine our goals and desires fulfilled in our mind, we cause them to become true in our life.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“She loved him, but sometimes she didn’t like him very much.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Stage Fright

“You might be a good poet if you were on the moon while writing in your room.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Imagination is war against the impossible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Books were my mother's world, but she was mine. We lived in the apartment above the shop, and every day with my mom was an adventure. We didn't travel far on vacations because of the shop."
Natalie used to beg to travel the world the way her friends did on school holidays---Disneyland, Hawaii, London, Japan. Instead, her mom would take her on flights of the imagination to Prince Edward Island, to Sutter's Mill, to Narnia and Sunnybrook Farm, to outer space and Hogwarts.
She tried her best to bring her mother back to life with a few key anecdotes and memories smeared by tears. And then she looked down at the page she'd read many times growing up---from The Minpins by Roald Dahl. "The first time my mother read this book to me was after a visit to the Claymore Arboretum. I was five years old, and I believed the dragonflies were fairies, and that tiny sprites rode around on the backs of songbirds. She let me go on thinking that for as long as I pleased. And as far as I'm concerned, that's the best parenting advice ever."
She breathed in, imagining the comfortable scent of her mother's bathrobe as they snuggled together for their nightly story. She breathed out, hoping her words would somehow touch her mother one more time.
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Brand new short story writer from Ireland who will become the next “breakthroughâ€� writer. He has all the hallmarks of a wizard storyteller and this book is up there with the very best newcomers”
― Darren Moore, Five Incredible Short Stories

“Written words are like a canvas without a set dimension.”
― David Parker, Creativity for the Kremlin: How to Depose a Dictator

“The headstones were like soldiers and roll call—uniform and straight, row upon row of fallen heroes.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Stage Fright

“And since her best friend had plans to move halfway around the world, the fangs of separation anxiety had left teeth marks on her ass. ”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn

“There is a widely held belief that the imagination is not to be trusted and that only things scientifically real and provable can be relied on. Yet, many of your greatest scientific inventions comes from the imagination. [...] Everything in your reality existed as a thought before it existed in reality.”
― Sanaya Roman, Duane Packer, Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide

“Silence is the doorway to the temple of imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Verdade ou Mentira, o que se diz sobre os homens geralmente tem tanta influência em suas vidas e seu destino quanto aquilo que eles fazem.”
― Victor Hugo, Os Miseráveis