Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?


N.K. Jemisin

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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with...
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Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize...
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In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

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You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. A...
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We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that...
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It would be cruel to break that hope before it fades on its own.
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The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.
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For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
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But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always...
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line o...
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The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and w...
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Nassun can't see his face, and must gauge his mood by his broad shoulders. (It bothers her that she ...
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This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but ...
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The children of the Fulcrum are all different: different ages, different colors, different shapes. S...
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Love is no inoculation against murder.
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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
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Desperation makes for poor stealth.
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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...
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You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
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We aren't human."

"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the s...
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Once upon a time there was a

Once upon a time there was a

Once upon a time the...
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J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus...
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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And w...
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The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's les...
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Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.
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You must remember, though, that most normal people have never seen an orogene, let alone had to do b...
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There is a strange emptiness to life without myths.

I am African American — by which I ...
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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. De...
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Separarse de la tierra y contemplarla desde arriba como los dioses es una blasfemia. No podemos ser ...
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Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER
He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]
GEORGE HERBERT
My body has gone into things and done things that I never would have imagined ever in life.
LISA RINNA
I have a pretty fertile imagination. I have big dreams. But this is beyond what I ever imagined.
MARIANO MARTINEZ
I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn,...
DAISY RIDLEY
This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.
JENNIE FINCH
What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE
I don't think I ever imagined this. I had no idea I was even close.
HEIDI ROMER
I couldn't even have imagined this happening.
JASON SWANSON
What we asked them to design was completely impossible. What we got works better than we could have ...
ELLEN DEVLIN
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved
INDIAN PROVERB
He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
MARCUS AURELIUS
Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it to be.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
He that seeks trouble never misses.
ENGLISH PROVERB
He that seeks trouble never misses.
FRENCH PROVERB
They had a banner with names of people who scored 1,000 points. I never imagined that I would be doi...
ALAINA HARTMAN
There is popcorn that I have never imagined.
CHRIS BRYANT
These are people who never, ever would have imagined themselves being homeless. Ever. If you really ...
LINDA MURPHY
To have something happen that never before in our history have we ever borne witness to or imagined,...
JACK VALENTI
I have never been the type of person who has ever worried about what people think.
BEBE WINANS
When the venture began 10 years ago, who would have imagined that they would have grown so big?
STEVE CAPUS
This is beyond what I ever imagined would happened. The only thing that I can compare this to, even ...
GUY FIERI
Never ever compare yourself with other people. They may have what you don’t have; you also have wh...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I can only imagine the feeling they must have on that campus, in that locker room. It's something th...
JIM CALHOUN
Because that's what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things you ...
JODI PICOULT
Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined,...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpre...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never f...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
SARAH DESSEN
It's beyond anything I ever imagined.
LISA LYE
Because that’s what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things yo...
JODI PICOULT
Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
VERNON L. SMITH
The fly fisher who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or ...
JIMMY D. MOORE
Life's best part is it never misses to surprise us
NARESH JELLA
I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much diffe...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
IMAGINATION BEYOND EVERYTHING GIVES YOU A LIFE THAT YOU HAVE NEVER IMAGINED
MARKHANDEYA
What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the ra...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country dow...
JOE BIDEN
I don't think even our founders could have imagined the good fortune we've realized.
DAN AMOS
Lucky is the one who misses the wrong train!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
I heard it. I grew up coming to this place. I never imagined that would ever happen to me. Obviously...
LARRY BROWN
That is something that I would have never imagined happening. You just have to take it.
LAURENCE MARONEY
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
ANONYMOUS
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
UNKNOWN
What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can ...
AYUSHEE GHOSHAL
What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can ...
-AYUSHEE GHOSHAL, 4 AM CONVERSATIONS WITH THE GHOSTS OF OLD LOVERS
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
MASON COOLEY
He got a lot more time than anybody ever imagined.
KAREN SMITH
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in real...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company
MARK TWAIN
If people start looking from the small stuff up to the bigger once, they will find stuff which they ...
DEYTH BANGER
[They] bring this wonderful script to life in a way that is even more hysterical than I could have i...
ERIN BENNETT
It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER
It is even more fascinating than we imagined.
BART EHRMAN
It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less -- even a v...
GREG BEHRENDT
In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
BRUCE ALBERTS
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have eve...
CARLOS GHOSN
that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Even though [doctors] say they talk about the dangers of pregnancy, it never registers what they're ...
JANE PERILLO
Things never happened like I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN
Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go ...
SAM STARBUCK
Never ever underestimate any failure in this world.. They can do wonders that one can not even think...
AMAN GOYAL

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