I imagined her as a lovely colorful bird that could fly if she chose when she played the piano, and her voice soared in the most hypnotic tones. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The haze dispersed, and Nhamo realized she was in a far worse situation than she could ever have imagined. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she had imagined that Odenigbo’s mother was already gone, she was dampened to see her on the sofa, dressed, fussing with a bag. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra imagined the Chaplain speaking loftily, listening to the star daemons’ remarks, and then nodding judiciously or shaking his head in regret. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what it was like to know that no matter whether my eyes were opened or closed it made no difference, everything was still dark. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But I can't imagine it being any more magical than it already is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I blinked once, twice, wondering if I was imagining it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I’d wind up working in a crystal shop, he thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was sure later who was to blame that we were caught unaware, but then, the idea of blaming someone was too horrible to imagine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Actually, theoretical physicists were about to become more powerful than Oppenheimer had ever imagined. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even begin to imagine how a black man could become so good in a sport dominated by whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“YESSS!!!!!” he answered, screaming, and I could tell right away that now was not the time to try to explain to him all I had learned and imagined about Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once I slid down a zip line from the Hancock building and imagined what the marsh looked like full of water, blue-gray and gleaming under the sun. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I imagine his hands on me, wrestling me toward the tray, shoving me against the metal, pulling the straps that dangle from the tray across my body, too tightly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was dreaming it, imagining it, and yet I wished that it did not hurt so much to smile, so that I could. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could only imagine, however, at last, that she drew his notice because there was a something about her more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in any other person present. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing against you. I just can’t imagine her saying yes.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had never seen the California sea, but I imagined it was very pretty. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the thin light, even the whirling boomerang print of the vinyl tablecloth seemed tranquil; it was easy to imagine Helen sitting across from her, head bowed, asking forgiveness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally tried without success to imagine what a tousled Dr. Cable would look like. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can imagine, as if I were in his place, how despondent he must sometimes feel at the quarrels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She imagined a colorful extravaganza with bands and floats and thousands of marchers from all over the country, an event so bold and beautiful that it would demand notice from federal legislators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I took the picture out and just looked at Minerva, imagining the sadness surrounding her existence. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Usually in the morning. Sometimes in the afternoon. But I can’t imagine they’ll want prisoners arriving at the same time as guests.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine how life led her to this place, but I take out a dollar and throw it into her hat, bringing her total to two dollars. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine them telling the Doctorita how I work in the fields, and the Doctorita assuming it’s a matter of time before I come begging for my job back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine anything sadder than having once had a single body and then suddenly not being able to stay in any for longer than a day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe she can't imagine needing a cop for anything other than a car accident. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I imagine our births were rather similar, except that on the same night I came into this world, the Angel of Death took my mother from it. Ever since then, I’ve had a gift.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine life with only one hand and realize that it would be hard. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But my memory is uncertain; I recall a summer storm in the town where we lived and imagine a summer my mother knew in 1929. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have already been whatever you can say or imagine, every version of the newcomer who is always fearing and bitter and sad. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what she was saying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even imagine a room without the six of us in it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I can imagine how ripped apart you must have felt and still sometimes feel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The bus stop was eerily empty, and she imagined all the people who would have been crowded here, now in churches, singing and praying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d have to tell her later it wasn’t the singsong word she might have imagined. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had imagined her completely out of sight, near the bow beneath the tarpaulin, as far from the hyena as she could get. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that the serum is liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me strong. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Gerald, fearful of what he might find, refusing to even imagine what he had discovered, raced across the cold floor and opened Angel’s door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the way to the duplex on Winslow, he told himself he was imagining things. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But it was nice to imagine a version of my grandfather that didn’t make my grandmother cry. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a pause; Tree-ear imagined Min nodding in polite agreement. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He cannot imagine being with her in the house where he is still Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine him ever lonely, or bored or despondent; his equanimity was bottomless, as was his lack of ambition, and he assumed that everyone else was much like him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is nearly impossible for modem man to imagine what it is like to live by hunting. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined her face sharply and clearly so that nothing could come between us. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, as the seasons had changed, I imagined my father less and less, until his face blurred in my mind like a reflection cast on restless waters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

More butterflies took to the air as the largest fetterling I could’ve ever imagined tried to squeeze through a gap like a T. rex. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Not that I, even in my more histrionic moments, imagine that I am a member of that oppressed working class. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined a mental frame around what she was seeing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At first I imagined them in their seventies and then I guessed what they looked like in their twenties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I can spend hours imagining a tiny version of myself living in those fancy, little houses. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine a magic square or the area of a circle or solving for jy, but it didn’t work this time. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to tell my friends that I loved my team and couldn’t imagine going through high school without them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He breathed deliberately, imagining himself as calm as the pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I can imagine that some churchgoers may have been unsettled by this little old lady in a head scarf hanging out among a bunch of Christians. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I cannot show you what direction that is, but I can imagine it to exist. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin ran his fingers around the ugly cavity, imagining how it would feel to be struck with a mace. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

A real creature was much better than the monsters he’d imagined. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried to imagine what Lee would have said, and went from there.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I can only imagine that he wanted to protect you,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nailer could imagine the dead crew boy’s ghost in the ducts with him, creeping through the darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Really, Mr Stevens, I can just imagine your face if you were to be confronted by them now. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

How could they know I wasn’t making fools of them by saying things I didn’t really imagine? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine that I will ever come home for a homecoming game after I leave here, but it was fun to pretend that I was. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We saw the story on TV. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have something like this happen at our church.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For all these months I’d imagined malaria as a stealthy, secret enemy, but now that it was fully upon me it was as real as anything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that a thousand people might be there! Can you imagine what the Governor will think when he sees us? I just hope we all have the courage to go through with it.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I sleep harder than I imagine possible and wake up early. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mom knew exactly what to do, and it was almost impossible for me to imagine her residing on the borders of sanity. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were not as heavy as I had imagined. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He imagined suddenly that he caught a muffled cry, and he made towards it; and even as he went forward the mist was rolled up and thrust aside, and the starry sky was unveiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine actually saying it in real life—unless I was using a Capitol accent and making fun of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine how the night could possibly get any longer. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She imagined lizards sitting outside in the sun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We imagine them arranged in great lazy herds for as far as the eye can see, with patterns on their skin, an adaptive camouflage implying that they have problems too. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were a bird, you could imagine bowing down to him. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hall tried to imagine what the post-war world would be like. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I have to imagine my mind as something physical, something that can control the body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He complained about the hair on his shoulders, but Miranda thought him perfect, and refused to imagine him any other way. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine a movie more interesting than this day of mine, or a candy as sweet as the idea that Jason was real and might be my brother. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Malala,” I told myself, “there are real things to be afraid of. You don’t need to imagine danger where there is none.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At first, I think I’m imagining it and chide myself for letting Zak’s talk of the fey get to me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I try hard to believe Dad's right about me imagining stuff, and that's all Miss Willis was—a figment of my imagination. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It made the hairs on her neck stand on end, but she told herself she was imagining things. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine Jesse James without a gun, or a hen that didn’t cackle? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the imagined conversations had melted away into his big, sweet eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the meanest thing she had ever imagined doing. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Now he imagined himself holding a needle in his hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the game, you imagine the lives of people in the cars around you. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Percy imagined Octavian laughing at them, but he decided not to let it get him down. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined visiting the wicked country of Italy, where the men are taught to overcome virgins and the women know many freedoms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He imagined just how it would go: him tying the knot on the pillowcase with the snake wriggling inside, then carrying the sack home like a triumphant bounty hunter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

At first, I think I’m imagining the rumble. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had often imagined to himself the pleasure it would be just to stroll once down Hancock’s Wharf, as he was strolling now. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the same as every time since Naomi had come to live in his house: he needed to imagine her to finish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The imagination, he thought, no matter how vivid, was still tethered in some measure to the known, and this was beyond anything he could have imagined. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could hear Daddy sleeping, too, and I imagined I could hear Via sleeping down the hallway in her room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I cringe, imagining the bitter taste of apple seeds, and follow him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

From the day Papa Andrew mentioned the books until the day they arrived, we did nothing but imagine what our new American families would look like. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Mother’s face when she arrived home and found what a splendid job I had done running the coffeehouse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Adele song comes on the radio, and as I imagine myself in a video hitting every note as well as her, I drift to sleep. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was onstage and he was having a ball, and I’m absolutely thrilled because I’ve taken that kid to a place he never imagined and may never be again.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Could I imagine the scandal if people found out that his, Bailey Johnson’s, daughter had been cut by his lady friend? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew you were hiding something. But I never imagined...” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine it to be true, but I wondered it all the same. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were written during the thirties, but much of it would still be up to date - after all, I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men had never been out of England before, let alone imagined a voyage to the southern continent. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Matt ate mechanically as he imagined the storeroom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reads the Whitman and highlights “I tramp a perpetual journey,” because that’s the kind of thing she likes to imagine herself doing, the kind of thing she likes to plan. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Just imagine it's the burning sensation in your heart for Sandra." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But even with their help, it was much more work than he had imagined. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I imagine his ultimate dream would have been to become butler of a house like this one. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we may well imagine the flutter of excitement that swept through the Iowa Department of Natural Resources when in the mid-1980s the world’s geological attention focused on Manson and its crater. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I flop onto my back again, dig my fingers into the loamy soil and imagine Mom making that incredible painting, wishing with her hands, being that in love. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine someone could want them dead. They may have had some... unorthodox quirks, but they were good people.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had sat there the way I did every time she did my hair—with my eyes closed and my head tilted down—secretly imagining Kira was my mother. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Look at your Shah, Mom. Here's your king sitting in a castle. Bet you never could have imagined this." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was not a bit the way he had imagined she would be. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The words wound through Aru, powerful enough that she imagined she could see them floating around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She couldn't picture herself at a cheerful country school in the mountains any more than she could imagine going back to her parents. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The flashlight picked up an answering glimmer from the pearls, from the satiny hair ribbons, from the woman’s eyes: The image was finer and more delicate than either of them had imagined. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined another air raid, bombs rolling out of a plane and exploding in the compound before she and Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu could reach the bunker down the street. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry sincerely hoped the artist had imagined the looks of intense pain on their faces. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The longer I spent in Sing Sing, in fact, the easier it was to imagine anybody, anywhere, committing practically any crime. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined her sitting on the bed working up the nerve. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It makes me scramble around in my head, trying to imagine my way around his commandment, but I cannot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No. But imagine how angry she’d be if my elbow slipped out.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Hurricane Gloria building up force as it drew nearer, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blew by them because I couldn’t imagine Jules sitting there with them, and as the guys continued to call my name, I didn’t bother looking back or answering. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I begin to respond, I realize that she cannot imagine ever doing such a thing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was better off knowing he was okay rather than imagining that another Mrs. Moss might be abusing him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Walking down the dirt road that day, I imagined myself being brave and hitchhiking the three miles to my house. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was how I imagined a Korean would be, at least one living in any renown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Metal was the building’s bones,” I say, imagining metal sheets and beams buckling, glowing red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I never imagined my parents would make me leave. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was introducing me to a whole other world, one I had never imagined before we started writing to each other. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mal looks like nothing you know or can imagine, neither goblin nor troll nor imp nor demon. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

What was up with this Noah kid, I couldn’t imagine. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Good,” I said, and I imagined two leather chairs near a fire in a paneled room, where two old soldiers could drink and talk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the child my mother was, crouched in one of those lean-tos, scrambling for weapons because they meant an ounce of safety, choking on smoke to keep warm in the winter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was because I was imagining that I was a missile, being hurled from the equator into the northern hemisphere. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could only imagine what it looked like, the people on their errands, the busy shops, the buggies and carts navigating each other. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No. He thought it was because he wanted Calixte to be right: for the truth to be stranger than anything they could imagine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’s getting fanned down by the finest girls you could ever imagine. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can imagine it, their curiosity: Are they happy? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no space in my head to imagine that we nine would need the same armed forces that had defended us from danger abroad. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually it is about all you can imagine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she imagined that he was someone else too, someone back in her village. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself gripping the wheel, as Shoba turned around to hand the children juice boxes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And until recently, I was the First Lady of the United States of America—a job that’s not officially a job, but that nonetheless has given me a platform like nothing I could have imagined. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you didn’t imagine the whole thing?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She imagined the voice of Gaea filling this cavern. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before they got into their separate cars, they hugged, both murmuring, “So good to see you,” and she imagined his driver and her driver watching them curiously. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The storm gave plenty of warning, but when it finally arrived, it was much worse than Tally had imagined weather could be. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Adina had the disconcerting feeling that the ground beneath her was not as solid as she imagined. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It took Tally ages to get to sleep, imagining the leap from the hilltop down into uncertainty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could imagine him looking away, not caring what I did anymore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I push past the stars into that dark light, and you can’t imagine how it feels. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine what he’s going to do once he realizes the ring and the locket are gone? What if he moves the Hogwarts Horcrux, decides it isn’t safe enough?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Do you imagine suits like this come cheap?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn’t ordinary dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I can imagine us having perfect nights sometimes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Phones get hacked. Can you imagine if somebody knew your combo was 36-24-36?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The NACA’s work—more intense and interesting than she ever would have imagined—would remain her work for the duration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You could imagine the Brown Pelican standing over the Black-Backed Gull at the moment when the gull most needed him and saying that maybe the sky won’t be lost after all. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is easier to imagine a world in which we tolerate racial differences by being blind to them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I imagined the plain wooden crucifix above the altar swinging back and forth as Father Amadi raised the host at consecration. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As hard as I tried, it was impossible to imagine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d only just left the Night Zoo for the first time since she and her parents had become indentured there, so it felt impossible to imagine something as far away as the Kusonga Plains. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine her to be a fun grandmother to the three boys in the pictures that decorate her office. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine him pulling the covers from his body, stepping from that chair, the two of us going for a walk around the neighborhood, the way we used to walk around campus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone on his bed, unable to concentrate on what he was reading, he would imagine how Amanda looked naked, wrapped in her long black hair with all her noisy adornments, like an idol. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like imagining her making me a sandwich, imagining that it will make me happy. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine the inhabitants of the ruined house in their new country, but she knew too little about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, ABC News disputes this study vigorously. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the wilderness kit whistle in her backpack, and now could not imagine why. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine the holiday show and the combined music rehearsal and everyone all together—it’ll be even louder than this. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The family home in the north—Briony imagined streets of blackened mills, and grim men trudging to work with sandwiches in tin boxes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It can be imagined how Greece rang with the praises of the young man who had cleared the land of these banes to travelers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the ambulance, with Fiona, I had tried to imagine a string that wrapped around my hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There is egocentrism, the inability of children to imagine a simple scene, such as three toy mountains on a tabletop, from another person’s vantage point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I tried to ease myself back into normal breathing, but I imagined all the things that could have happened to him at war. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I imagine he was drunk like most of Chicago,” Officer Rariden continued in a low, bored drawl. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like everything I imagined for myself last night while I was alone in bed and Arthur was on the phone listening with me, except we’re really together this time. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He swung himself up, branch by branch, and imagined he was Silas, swarming smoothly up a sheer brick wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was frankly hard to imagine real life happening there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For, of course, I was required to hurry upstairs to serve some of the most distinguished gentlemen of the land and I cannot imagine I would have delayed unduly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine the details of that conversation, but I know that for Audrey it must have been a tremendous relief, laying my words before our mother, finally able to say, I’m not crazy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine they would ever change their minds and allow their children to go to school with me, no matter what laws those men on the Supreme Court made. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried and failed to imagine her, this woman who could after so many years renounce altogether her husband, break the bond that must surely have existed despite his long absences. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but stare back, imagining how life would be for that little girl without her father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could just imagine himself running down to the field, wearing his starched white shirt and pretending he wasn’t, begging to play with Willis Hurd. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It takes some imagining, but finally I see myself playing H.O.R.S.E. with Erin as the sun sets through the trees and the stars poke through the endless sky above. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this morning, I’d woken up to a yellow paper taped to the door of my apartment, its words printed in the largest font you can imagine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A well of rage and fear opened up inside her, bigger than anything she could imagine or understand, bigger than that brachiosaurus that had helped them, bigger than the world. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I imagined what would happen when my family discovered I was missing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d been imagining myself frowning at the crowd from our usual bolt-hole and worrying over whether I’d do well enough in the tournament to impress one of the royal family into granting me knighthood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine being unable to move your own head? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she varied by saying, “I can just imagine.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes it easy to imagine her past, and her future, to picture her growing old. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What Shoemaker and his colleagues found was that there was more risk out there–a great deal more–than anyone had ever imagined. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine the screaming, shouting, stamping of feet and swearing that went on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I let myself dream: I imagined conversation and laughter over dinner instead of silence broken only by the clinking of silverware and the occasional grunt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why people began collectively to imagine the existence of limited liability companies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined spiderwebs in my bones and turned my palm towards the moon, watching the ballet of bones between my elbow and wrist twist to make it so. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Cole imagined the cold, the rain, carrying water, keeping a fire going, doing school- work, and long, long hours of being alone and bored. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He imagined a bunch of demigods in dark robes trying to quietly roll a scorpion ballista through the front doors. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The man’s eyes glazed over, imagining such possessions; he drifted by degrees into a trance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Chicago, I was learning, was a much bigger city than I’d ever imagined it to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined we would begin our new lives tomorrow. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined Otrera sitting there with her fine robes and her silver hair, ordering her warriors to attack Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“From something that he said, my dear Emma, I rather imagine—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself on Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco, fighting at the old Titan stronghold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine hosting a pity party about it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I think that as we listened to the William Tell Overture, we were supposed to be imagining the Lone Ranger and Tonto riding their horses through the desert. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was not at all the way she’d imagined the ending. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

That was pretty much the best thing Magdalys could imagine happening. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say it, but I imagine she was grateful I was still alive—that all three of her children who were at church were alive. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the dinner, it seemed like we were all connected in some strange way that none of us had imagined, and it stayed that way as we came to practice on Monday. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I thought this was funny; I couldn’t imagine the hospital in Swat having a communications office. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Who knows. Perhaps they can drain it, tighten the soil; they have resources beyond our imagining. Or perhaps they wish to grow rice for their own men.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that he would have loved to see me in one, though he'd never mentioned it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the appearance of fiction, even people with the same genetic make-up who lived under similar ecological conditions were able to create very different imagined realities, which manifested themselves in different norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined it flying on until it spied a narrow green valley, a scooped-out basin with a creek looping and winding its way through the center. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine he’s got a trigger word that sets him off. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he had created in our lives, I could not imagine what my life would be like—what the world would be like—without him in it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was heaven when I first found it. I couldn’t imagine anything better than that. And all the time it was full of Specters, and we never knew....” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, and if you can imagine, those big ears on a little puppy. His ears are the same size now as when they brought him here, only his body was, like, half as big.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

An ambulance drove down the street between us, and I imagined who it was carrying, and what had happened to him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the next day, I tried to tell myself that I had only imagined the great evil of the scene the night before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie slept too quietly, and on these mornings when he buttoned up his jacket and went out the door, he imagined she was watching him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I observed you with General Lee. I would imagine that there are weighty technical matters that occupy your mind.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined my life without her and without them, and I didn’t like it either way. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When Volpe tells me about his younger years, I imagine them taking place in black-and-white, like in an old movie. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She ate one raw: it was warm and soft and delicious beyond imagining. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine her having any other life apart from that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The neckline was only an inch below her collarbone, but it was loose-fitting, and I imagined that if she bent it would give a full view. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But even if I begged my parents to do this, I can’t imagine them giving in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She found it hard to imagine the little pudgy lady on horseback, but who could tell? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Though it was different, he could not have imagined what it would be like. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And then he saw something so bizarre he thought he had imagined it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I planted the young beans, I tried to imagine life in that orphanage. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I look at the mountains and imagine the geological movements of plates beneath Earth’s crust over millenia. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have lately imagined that I saw symptoms of attachment between them—certain expressive looks, which I did not believe meant to be public.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was imagining it, but for the first time in a long while, my brother seemed to be mine again, and I didn’t realize until just that moment how much I’d missed him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stood there staring at the marble block, trying to imagine what lol would’ve looked like, when the feeling of being a giant that I had carried with me all day started to wear off. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Tobias will sit in it; if he’ll grin at me over breakfast; if he’ll look at me in that secret, stolen way that I imagine myself looking at him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to fall asleep thinking about all the ways he’d failed in life, so he decided to imagine what he would do differently if he was ever rescued. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I said I imagined her father had had quite an extraordinary vocabulary. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

So I try to imagine what it would have been like to drop by the gallery, chat with her over a coffee. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even asked her if she wanted to play it, and she snorted despite herself, imagining this tall, strange man with ice-chip eyes crouching in the boxwoods. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Europeans couldn’t imagine a reasonable society failing to take that step, and it’s hard for us to imagine even now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined what her mother would say to her, showing up at a place like this wearing a spire-fighting uniform, but it was too late to worry about that now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

About twenty purple-and-gilt chairs stood in two rows here, and Harry, filing into the front seats with the Weasleys, looked down upon a scene the likes of which he could never have imagined. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I imagine it will be little more than a pale line, provided he can avoid tearing open his wound.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Mom being happy with Marcus, knowing how she felt about him now. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined that the news of Mommy’s marriage crashed through the Jewish community like an earthquake. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished rehearsal that night, I could almost imagine myself leaping out into the airy elements and dropping the insubstantial pageant of life behind me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was not the machine I imagined, or the machine I had worked so hard for. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I knew where they put corpses in the mortuary was different, yet I imagined Papa- Nnukwu s body being folded into a home refrigerator, the kind in our kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the cottage feels haunted at night, but surrounded by trees in the spring sunlight, it is beautiful. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself as he must see me, a sullen girl sitting in judgment of him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was low and throaty, as ominous a thing as he could imagine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Richard went around to the front door and rang the doorbell and imagined Kainene coming to the door and telling him she was fine, she had simply wanted to spend some time alone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jimmy stared at the diorama, imagining a long column of people and horses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

As a result, she imagined that the pupils at her mother’s Thursday workshops were her uncles’ children. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine what it must feel like to live in one place for so long. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To help you imagine this, here are animations of a single wave reflecting back and forth and standing waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It became a sick sort of game, imagining ways to kill myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t place the memory specifically in time; I imagine this is one of those traumatic moments that Dr. Keyes worked so hard to help me forget, but somehow it still lingers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We can imagine our ancestors gazing idly up on some night a hundred thousand years ago and noting a strange cloud arising from the unilluminated part of the Moon, suddenly struck by the Sun’s rays. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank glanced at Hazel to see if he’d imagined it, but Hazel looked just as surprised. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I've tried to imagine,” said Montag, “just how it would feel. I mean to have firemen burn our houses and our books.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I imagine I sit under a blanket of stars with Lita; so many scattered in its darkness, if you squinted the entire sky would fill with glitter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Afterward, he sat down in the kitchen and pulled at his toenails and imagined what was going on in the bedroom. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that massive, scarred black face, sweeping over the sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined a pigeon would have a good life at the seashore. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

How naïve he’d been, to imagine it was all a matter of understanding. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

You can imagine the situation: the pale knights starting to their feet in the candlelight, the ineffectual attempts at aid, and their supposing eyes turning upon one another with ashamed suspicion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to imagine how it will feel when her grandmother doesn’t recognize her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine some report going into my file describing my home life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“How many stars in the sky?” he repeats, cracking open an eye to stare at the ceiling like he’s imagining the night sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At least when she was home in Soweto, I could picture her cooking in the kitchen or reading in the lounge, I could imagine her waking up in the house I knew so well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine myself there, a permanent guest in my guest room, walking barefoot into the kitchen to pour myself mugs of coffee or glasses of water. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine the gate opening and closing and him being safe on the outside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined we would go to the woods and hike and swim, then go to sleep in a bed in a house. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In any event, this was not a moment of high glamour for me, not a time I could really imagine blow-drying my hair and putting on a business suit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"That's what he said. Can you imagine me wanting to kill myself, and coming round to chat about it with a whole pack of strangers, and most of them no better than myself..." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But whatever it was he scented or imagined showed equal cunning, and never appeared. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

While he had successfully trapped the prairie dog, the rest of his invention wasn’t quite the success Chase imagined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I think Henry Stone might have stared between me and June a little too long then, but maybe I was imagining it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wants me to imagine what a three- dimensional universe would look like to someone who was perfectly flat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined them calling their friends on the phone. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now imagine trying to stand on top of those two towers of soda cans and balance in your big shoes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why I was so shaken, but I was, just imagining all that I didn’t know. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, this wasn’t an idea that came easily to Nickelodeon. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself riding a tan horse into the summer sunset, swatting any mosquito that tried to sting my awesomeness. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers tried to imagine the truth of what had happened. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked much younger and smaller than I had imagined—like a little boy in his green shorts and shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I keep trying to convince myself I’m being hypersensitive, that I’m imagining all this because I think they’re going to hate me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

From behind them suddenly, closer than they imagined, they could hear the roar of Humperdinck: “Stop them! Cut them off!” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had imagined a soaring dome, a richly colored Ezine carpet, but the room is just a simple auditorium. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A more obvious rapping on Richard Parker’s door couldn’t be imagined. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

What do you imagine North America looked like when colonizers first came from Europe? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Distanced, but more alert, or am I imagining it? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as an indulgence, let us imagine that intelligent life once evolved on such a planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you might imagine, though, no one wanted that task. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine? What a doozy that would be.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Everybody around you starts dying! Heart attacks! Strokes! Cancer! People you’ve known your whole life are just gone! People you love! Can you imagine how painful that is?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

And she pressed her palm against her injury, trying to imagine a bit of ice melting into the burn, taking the pain away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop across a strait, was the dark side of the moon, imagine what Canada was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I imagined the sound, or maybe it’s something else, like the can of beans from dinner the night before last. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine a meal with that many people and couldn’t. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But it won’t be easy. Everybody is very poor in Japan. While you were sleeping, your mother spoke with one of the soldiers. He said you can’t imagine how poor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No doubt about it,” Mr. Huffer agreed sadly, and I imagined he struck his classic one-hand-on-hip mournful pose while his other hand reached out to pat someone on the shoulder. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I never would’ve imagined that “perfect” Orange County could go so utterly insane. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I even imagined us pulling up behind the Dumpster at the 7-Eleven for a few minutes so I could fill him in on what had happened. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I imagined old Ikwa once again sitting on a branch next to me, quietly watching the sun set. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To look at him was to imagine a man cut from stone, so heavy did he seem, so void of motion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I suppose he wanted to remove that last fuel tank, but I can’t imagine what possessed him to light his torch without first draining the fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, convincing my parents to let me spend part of my summer on a tiny island off the coast of Wales was no easy task. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I think of my mom and imagine her walking down our driveway and leaving Dennis Port. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It didn't take much effort to imagine those same gossip sessions happening at some other dining table, with her own family as the subject. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she would remember how she had once wanted to trade her life away for an eternity she could not imagine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, more softly than I imagined myself doing. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined Mami just now seeing them, draped brightly on the backs of chairs, and going to the window once again to watch for car lights. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have ever seen a small dog trying to get its teeth into an enormous ball, then you will be able to imagine roughly how it was with the sharks and the peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Mrs. Cadaver touching her husbands face. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I kept glancing over at his leg, or the place where his leg had been, trying to imagine what the fake leg looked like. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a Mexican tropical jungle, imagine! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t fair to have waited for so long to read a book that was less than what I’d imagined. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine. People think they see all kinds of things, I suppose. Well, of course, she didn't see him,” he added testily to Charles, who looked rather troubled. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I could imagine us going out somewhere, anywhere, and someone saying something awful to me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now we were being driven out by a force the writer could never have imagined—the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It made us giggle, Conrad and me, just to imagine what she might be making for us this year. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A danger imagined had become present and real, and her mother was already searching for a way to break Florence’s will. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Two: imagine all the people at school in their underwear. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not come close to imagining my thoughts in that picture. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He can’t imagine how somebody was able to put together something like this so fast. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine what was in the foul-smelling container or what its origin might be. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never imagined such a thing, never imagined I wouldn’t have to go to Roosevelt, to Asshat High with everyone else, I’m pretty sure the blood just started glowing inside my body. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She could imagine how she might abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life in return for these moments of elated, generalized love. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stella could almost imagine going out to check her chickens for eggs and finding a big old eagle egg sitting there. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine how terrible it would make me feel if Mom or Dad decided that I was “too much to balance.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was such hard work to imagine houses here that the idea of them became itself a kind of roof, with walls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Savage tried to imagine it, not very successfully. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined he would smell bad, belch, and scratch himself a lot, and speak mostly in grunts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She breathed heavy, panting in the shade as she imagined her father’s face, his smile, his voice. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And you tilted your head to the side, flashed your smile, and— though I’m probably imagining this—I think I even saw you bat your eyes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“They brought the kids from the orphanage here?” asked Harry, who could not imagine a less cozy spot for a day trip. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine how they felt when they knew the Gestapo was coming up the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Oh, sure. You killed my mother. You can imagine I'm dying to help you out." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“To imagine that for reasons of respectability, if you lived in North Carolina, you would want to be a Presbyterian rather than a Baptist doesn’t play anymore.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Briony who was walking in the direction of Balham was the imagined or ghostly persona. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I can imagine them doing that. But don’t worry. Your son can take care of himself. All your children can take care of themselves.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays especially it seems a waste of imagination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I know you will probably never see this, but it was nice imagining that I had you here to talk to. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I imagined figures slipping into the shadows when I passed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She hesitated, briefly imagining a life in East Texas without Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had imagined her to be proud in her isolation from the sisters, but she seems glad of my company. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She had been meaning to read it for a while now, and imagined she would like it since Blaine did not. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He said he couldn't imagine what kind of horrible person would steal from homeless children. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the details of the operation buzzed around in her head, she could imagine why Shay had run away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the officers had left, I imagined them returning to the mainland, writing up a report, telling stories in the pub, spreading the news that the mysterious southerner really had been digging for treasure. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In their silence, we imagined all sorts of horrors. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And so, since we will not be destroying these heroes ... I imagine we should honor them. Let the triumph celebration begin!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In her head she began to imagine the story that would go with that place. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“This kind of conversation depresses me more than you could possibly imagine,” the young man told him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be everything here, every creature Meggie could imagine, and even more that she could never have dreamed existed at all. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, can you imagine how Michelangelo and the children felt sharing a cart with a living, breathing king of France? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I imagined him moving me around with the other pawns in his power game. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just imagine,” Bep giggled, “there you are shopping at The Bijenkorf and you ask the way to the can. They wouldn’t even know what you were talking about!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Satchmo had always imagined the inside of her house was like an old boxing gym. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

For instance, imagine that you are measuring the length of a pencil. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The women watched the bright blue door on the second-story porch, and they imagined unspeakable scenes between the Night Swan and their husbands or sons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Settling back in his swivel chair, his feet up on the desk and his eyes closed, he began imagining how beautiful everything would be once he was squadron commander. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was easy to imagine old King Aerys perched up there, bleeding from some fresh cut, glowering down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had imagined today warm, with seagulls winging across a blue sky, not overcast and damp. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the escape of Ba’s tales, they could forget that Minli was not with them and imagine that she was there listening. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tally imagined herself by his side, just as beautiful, spending every day doing nothing but talking and laughing and having fun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Through the years more people than I could have ever imagined began following my surgeries and my treatments and my visits to Saint Grace’s, sticking with me through my awkward braces phase and everything. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about how to tell you for a long time. Longer than you can imagine.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine what was going to happen next. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if it did mean something, they couldn’t imagine what. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jam tried to imagine Lucille’s angels as hunters, remembering how Bitter had told her they’d had to do dark things, hard things. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And I recall that even then I had not yet begun to imagine the perils that tangle us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He cannot imagine coming from such parents, such a background, and when he describes his own upbringing it feels bland by comparison. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine what you must be going through, Conor,” Miss Kwan said, so quiet it was almost a whisper, “but if you ever want to talk, my door is always open.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And if they stepped away from the Doors for any reason, she imagined the elevator would close and disappear without them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A child’s natural decorum makes me refrain from imagining the scene in much detail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She imagined herself on a boat back to China. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Discharged with or without honor, fired with or without severance, dispossessed with or without notice, they hung around for a while and then could not imagine themselves anywhere else. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three of their hearts pounded—none of them would have imagined hours earlier what kind of night this would turn out to be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Lawrence the experimentalist and Oppenheimer the theoretical man formed about as strong a team as you could imagine in physics,” James Brady told an interviewer years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I forced the memory out of her mind, imagining nothing but air where Black Betty had been in the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I am only imagining the corner bike racks and the double locks, because I never went home with him, never saw his life, never knew that person Gat was when not on Beechwood Island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It is only after four days pass that I begin to imagine other possibilities. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine it could be more intense than the baths, which have become an almost nightly event, and I can’t wait to find out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

How could she have imagined for one minute that she could betray him? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop imagining being strapped to a table while a cabal of evil doctors removed my soul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He imagined watching the oar drifting away out to the open bay and wondered how he would ever get across if that happened. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes and imagined a vast, silent void. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like they know things older than you could ever imagine.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

So she sat down with her dead-or-maybe-not mother, who I imagine was not breathing by then but wasn’t yet cold either. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“One is too many, yes, but still, this place isn’t what I would have imagined. No overseer. No more work than the people can manage...” “...no decent housing,” I cut in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

White found it easy to imagine himself a Haitian. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined our pink vinyl booth at Ming Palace, the fish tank and those fish that saw only their own reflections. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There is much speculation, as might be imagined, as to whether we shall remain at Norfolk, now that it is razed, or whither we might go. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This conversation hasn’t gone the way I imagined it would, but I’m doing my best to salvage what’s left of it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel tried to clear her mind and imagine the scene through Sciron’s eyes—what he desired, what he expected. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I have no doubt of his being a very respectable young man. I know, indeed, that he is so, and, as such, wish him well. What do you imagine his age to be?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

We can, following Abbott, imagine a world of one dimension, where everyone is a line segment, or even the magical world of zero-dimensional beasts, the points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine her in anything other than a Starbucks getup or a plaid skirt. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the next aisle, Mama goes for the biggest bag of rice I’ve ever seen, and I imagine her cooking me magic beans and rice, like in Daddy’s stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Deleting his e-mails took a click, and after the first click, the others were easier because she could not imagine reading the second if she had not read the first. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She imagined it as a force field, deflecting all Rosa’s stupid comments. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was kind of stunned by imagining all the bloody carnage and I slumped back onto my bed pillow when I noticed a bubbling river of blood running out my nose and across my lips. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the Scientific Revolution, Bacon and Descartes were amongst those with plans for thoroughgoing intellectual change, but their plans were castles in the air, and neither of them imagined what Newton would achieve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They tumbled out, the idiotic words, just as I had imagined them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But we do not need to imagine such a meeting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as soft as he’d imagined, but it smelled fresh, and the coolness of the air was good, too. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little he remembered fewer and fewer of the details, until finally he had to imagine them, even fabricate them, guess what they must have been. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was imagining it before,” Denna said, looking up at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would be like. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Five hundred thousand dollars was a sum she could not even imagine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine my mother at the stove, hovering over bran pancakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine our future without him and Muthu in it. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’d imagined it would be like the clear, narrow stream that came out of the kitchen faucet, only bigger, and horizontal instead of vertical. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined the homemade box was probably full of nails or broken glass set at cruel angles for a similar purpose. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Water must be different for them, she thought to Pantalaimon: imagine drops the size of your fist! The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he replied that he was, his new friends might address him so for the future, and he could imagine what Bigwig and Silver would have to say about that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Though Julie laughs at everyone, she especially likes to laugh at Miss Ornsby and say, 'No wonder Miss Ornsby isn’t married. Can you imagine living with that on a daily basis?’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s the fever. It makes me imagine things.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then Kepler imagined that the second focus was infinitely far away: the second focus was a point at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The squall wind was in the tops of the palms and I could imagine how they looked in the night sky, thrashing against each other high over our little cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, my brain was at 100 percent imagining spending a weekend with Annie at her house. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine how many thousands of gallons of water the glass held back, but he was surprised to see that the tank was empty. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He thought a lot about Ifemelu, imagining what she was doing, how her life had changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I try to imagine I can see things I really can’t. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I never imagined my first kiss to be this way, but I guess it could be worse. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I imagine I’d been shoving that ice cream dish under her nose for five or six weeks before somehow it began to sink in that she wasn’t like the rest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like what she imagined a college dormitory to be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

My mouth watered, not just from imagining the taste but also from knowing how much better I’d feel with warm, sweet jam in my mouth. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine living in a house like this, with an actual yard and everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t imagine a proper young lady like you would have come for the interview otherwise,” he said, giving her a sly, sideways look. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed imagining how bitter their white juices would taste if Father Amadi had really sucked them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I imagined sketching the commander, I had no problem, until I got to his head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He imagined the Romans drawing up battle lines right now, encircling Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined it was the tailwinds of the shark and I breathed in. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There are also more baseball caps than I can imagine anyone needing, but I figure he’s not allowed to wear those to school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I can only imagine the film’s latest horrors, its flaunting of vulgarity in the face of theology and geometry, taste and decency. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And as he often did, he imagined that his dad was still alive, that it had all been some horrible mistake, a mix-up in the hospital, mistaken identity. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I can't imagine what fills your days so that you don't have time to write to an old friend. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagined capturing several rebels at once, locking them inside a house, sprinkling gasoline on it, and tossing a match. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I cut out each word of the poem, already imagining how I would rearrange them for a new poem. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“With Esme off caring for her father and him working full-time and taking care of Ruby by himself, I can’t imagine he’s had time to do anything that would cause any harm.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But I simply had to stifle it by imagining what I’d be thinking in twenty years when it would all come down to the same thing anyway. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said, imagining riding with the wind against my scalp. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can't imagine my own parents being able to keep such a secret from each other. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine being in this house, in this life, without him. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she imagined the trees as they would soon look in the full blaze of autumn color—and then afterward, in winter, as a field of bare-branched giants standing on a blanket of white. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Virgin and Child #1, she read on the placard, and she allowed herself to imagine for a moment that the child in Mia’s arms was her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was always so beautiful to stare up at that white ceiling and imagine only clean beautiful places, where the reward for living a pure life was a great loaf of warm bread. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He loved playing rough; I couldn’t imagine my casting him off was enough to anger him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She also had hallucinations, imagining that they were walking down the halls on tiptoe—tiny, cunning, furtive gnomes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not imagine, on any day to come and no matter how greatly he might be changed, wanting to take his father’s hand. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Chacho reacted instantly to any real or imagined insult to his mother. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she imagined herself safely installed in the Richardsons’ kingdom, half obscured in the background, keeping watch over her daughter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now Coraline saw, or imagined she saw, three shapes, each as faint and pale as the moon in the daytime sky. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine him a colleague of yours? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not being the Margo I thought I had finally imagined correctly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, Stella. He loves me. And these past few weeks without him have been harder than I could’ve imagined. I love him.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I can imagine staring into them for a long time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is not impossible to imagine priority disputes without the printing press, but in fact there are no priority disputes that we know of which predate printing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep, so he had eased a hand between his legs and imagined the septa atop him, breasts bouncing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined Trina out there somewhere, being held by the bonfire people, probably even crazier with another day gone and the debacle of the forest fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine these men and their game, for it helps place my own regrettable acts on a broader field, where they seem smaller. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is taking a long time, much longer than she ever imagined, which is likely going to be problem number three. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now it’s hard to imagine feeling that way. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This time I didn't have to imagine it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Frank asks, like he just can’t imagine the ways these clues could ever line up in the right order. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I imagine you could make it up to both Lady Lackless and myself if you found some sweet nettle for the pot tonight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then Kino might have thought he had imagined the sound. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sooner we get some casualties, the sooner we can make some progress on this. I’d like to get in the Christmas issue if we can. I imagine the circulation is higher then.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But I am not a lying fool and these hot dogs were not the juicy frankfurters you are probably imagining. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He imagined that if he could lead a normal life with Blanca, one in which she would be waiting for him every evening in a peaceful home, everything would be different. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine what I am going to say to Ms. Parker at the end of the day. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I can imagine her painted face and annoyingly perfect Bantu knots even without seeing them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She imagined her on horseback, smiling shyly behind a veiled green gown, her palms painted red with henna, her hair parted with silver dust, the braids held together by tree sap. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, wrote Esperanza on the next line. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some doctors warn we may see a thousand dead before it’s over. There are forty-thousand people living in Philadelphia, William. Can you imagine if one in forty were to die?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine a worse job in the whole world. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can imagine that you’re very conscious of it and feel it deeply....Dying pathetically. So young.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That probably should’ve worried Hazel, but she couldn’t imagine this beautiful horse hurting her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I awaken with a start and imagine I hear the goat still picking at the cliffwall, climbing to the mere. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine what dying must have felt like for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should try something else this time. Something you imagine.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Someday, I hope I can draw the way Julia draws, imagining worlds that don’t yet exist. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

At least the enclosure’s gate was shaded, so I imagined I could get through the fence without them seeing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, when she’d heard about the middle school homecoming dance, she had imagined something from a Bollywood movie. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gregor tried to imagine to himself whether anything similar to what was happening to him today could have also happened at some point to the manager. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the new owners of our house hitting that crack on trash day, their cans tipping and their garbage going everywhere. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll have a life I’ve never dared to imagine, in a bright, snug house where there is plenty to eat—warm cake and milky tea with as much sugar as I please. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and imagined Luke’s hand being raised in victory for the hundredth time in the last four years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Misery etched my brother’s face, and I couldn’t imagine why he was apologizing to me in such earnestness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I imagine the debate would turn on how best to kill it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined how odd an experience it must have been for her having this American enter her small home to live. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Lyra imagined she could see Will’s soul flowing back along the blade to his hand, and up his arm to his heart. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine what she was telling her new friends. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m always very fit,” said Maxim shortly, “never had anything wrong with me in my life. You imagine everyone ill who doesn’t look as fat as Giles.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d imagined the camaraderie of team practice, the adrenaline rush of competition, and maybe even being noticed on campus as one of the school’s athletic stars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And ultimately, I can’t imagine that giving her identity away will change my fate much, whatever it is. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He breathed a sigh of relief when they did not stop but faded away toward what he imagined to be the far end of the corridor. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was so mad, I imagined my eyes glowing just like the Minotaur’s. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, so I imagined. I was afraid there could be little chance of my hearing any thing of Miss Fairfax to-day.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She stared at a spot in the middle of the river and imagined the moment. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see the words imagine what a kiss would do whenever I close my eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I pictured this conversation in my head, I could imagine it going in two ways: revelation or revulsion. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tried to think like her for a moment, imagine that there was danger lurking around every corner. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many writers have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen nor known to exist in reality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

ME: Now imagine we were set free from this illusion. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If Michael has done that to Fuchsia, then it’s pretty easy to imagine what kind of stuff he’d do to you. And I say that,” she quickly adds when Crystal’s eyes widen, “as someone who...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Stella couldn’t begin to imagine what they were going through. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I never imagined it would be the last night I would see my little sister alive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But then after I think about it for a second, I add, “But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I understand he is off traveling and becoming richer, I imagine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Picking himself up from the floor of hell, we can imagine him rubbing his head like a drunk coming to after a five-day bender. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t imagine you like this much. Can’t say I blame you. But don’t lose your head. Madam is not afraid to beat her slaves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing through a curtain of mucus was almost as fun as Piper imagined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine goofing off with another partner like she had today with Rishi and supposed it was possible. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That way, it was not a lie and it let them imagine some accident, perhaps involving a heavy door. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The finest watchmakers come from Europe, I imagine. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But then, after I think for a bit, I say, “To me, he was just regular old Quinton. But he was always looking out for me. I couldn’t imagine having anyone better.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her instincts were satisfied as soon as they were awakened, and she had never imagined that passion could take other forms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't imagine where such a tarty picture had been taken until I noticed the Bloomingdale earrings and the Bloomingdale necklace glinting out of it with bright, white highlights, like imitation stars. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined it was Zach, and the thought of him moving in the night just outside the honey house caused my breath to speed up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the whole scene of the kitchen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was not in Gerris Drink- water’s nature to imagine they might fail, let alone that they might die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stood in the ship’s stately ballroom, imagining the dancing figures it used to hold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This is not what I imagined when I thought of escaping my parents and the bad memories they gave me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For they imagined as they wished—that it was a wild shot, an unintended killing—fools, not to comprehend they were already in the grip of death. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence Harry imagined he could hear the snake hissing slightly as it coiled and uncoiled—or was it Voldemort’s sibilant sigh lingering on the air? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Breedlove handled hers as an actor does a prop: for the articulation of character, for support of a role she frequently imagined was hers—martyrdom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh yes, you did, my good girl! I don't know why. Can't imagine. There was a man in it probably. Was that it?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But I never liked any of the Tarzan movies—my own imagined picture of Tarzan was more wonderful than any actor could possibly be. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined his own body ripped by bullets like the bird’s, and he sobbed harder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They make their living at this kind of thing, and I wish them well, but I imagine they will have a bewildering time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only comfort I can imagine is my mother’s arms, a thing I haven’t wished for—let myself wish for—in such a long time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick was so rich he couldn’t even begin to imagine how rich he really was. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess you can imagine what Lucas would have said if he heard that, but now, he would have said it while he was smiling. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just imagine, so much courage for such an old man—he must be at least seventy! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Now seems like a good time to imagine the meadow. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Leo could imagine her response: I am not waiting for you, Leo Valdez. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I can already imagine their disappointment, the shame. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could stop imagining that,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We can imagine it was rendered literally accessible from the palaces, as Cosimo Medici made Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio accessible through a special aboveground corridor from his private residence. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the morbid effect of living in a crime scene, but I imagined him drinking blood. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fur sprouted on my face, under my shirt, in every uncomfortable place you can imagine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if we could imagine the act of death in isolation, without any preliminary stage of being struck down by disease, we would be fearful of it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Look at this. You can imagine how they’ve been torturing me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Max and Officer Berdecki, both standing at my door, and my stomach feels sick. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Citra tried to picture a map and get a sense of how far from home she was, but just trying to imagine it made her head spin again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I imagine he’ll be coming for us directly, and I’m fresh out of houses to drop on him.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Well can it be imagined that my view of the city was rosy in hue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Determined not to look at Snape, Harry resumed the mashing of his scarab beetles, imagining each one to have Snape’s face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I imagine this balloon coming loose and chasing a little Mexican girl throughout the streets of Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My eyes were shut, but I could imagine what must have happened. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Piper could almost imagine they were normal teenagers, enjoying each other’s company and learning to be together as a couple. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded; he looked at the medicine pouches hanging from the ceiling and tried to imagine the objects they contained. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The house that stood in the middle of the compound was small, compact like dice, and it was hard to imagine Papa and Aunty Ifeoma growing up here. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only way I could comfort myself was to imagine that my brother had, in fact, just gotten fed up with us and run away. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I used to stand in front of mirrors with hairbrushes and imagine crowds chanting my name. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself naked in the moonlight, my skin turned as silvery as the leaves above us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is hard now to imagine the difficulty of learning to start, drive, and maintain an automobile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This had been a can’t-miss team, and if it didn’t make the playoffs, it was scary to imagine the enmity that thousands in town would feel for him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it is hard to imagine a still simpler organism that is in any sense alive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not allow herself to imagine anything else. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined marching forth right now, right here, in front of everyone, and appealing directly to Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will,” she says. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Why Neewo was gone, though at night she still imagined that she heard his cries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He imagined the letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles, that one most important letter, flipped so that it whizzed close to the right bin, but landed, finally, in the wrong bin. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that girl in the mirror, that girl who imagined speaking to the world, was the Malala I would become. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had spent the night imagining what she would do in Lexie’s situation, every time feeling that flash of panic surge through her again from her scalp to the soles of her feet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you imagine that there are many magicians named Madame Violet?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I imagined that I was an Indian princess. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

From today's vantage it is difficult to imagine the impact maize must have had in southern Mexico at the beginning, but perhaps a comparison will help. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We can imagine them, curious and dispassionate, observing us, as we would watch a bacterial culture in a dish of agar, to determine whether, this year again, we manage to avoid self- destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I go too far and imagine myself in that dress, sword at my hip, transformed, a true member of the Court, a knight in the Circle of Falcons. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined Laura in the small cabin, and all kinds of bears and creepy things just feet from the front door, waiting to get in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what sort of story you’d do on something like this, but maybe they were desperate for “human interest” material. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

So you can imagine how happy she was when they forced her to tell the truth about her imperial ancestry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beneficent, this attention—“Come to Columbia, Malia!” people were shouting—but it was not especially useful for a girl who was trying quietly to imagine her own future. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that he would have. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine they allow seventh graders to come to school made up like that,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined what it would feel like if I were wrapped in a blanket and someone were trying to break my neck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas was imagining that they were tracking pirates who would lead them to buried treasure. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘My!’ said Mrs. Lapham, ‘that’s worse than anything I had imagined. Now isn’t that a shame! Bright boy like Johnny just ruined. No more good than a horse with sprung knees.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I burst through the door into the boys’ restroom, pulling at my top T-shirt, imagining the sensation of tearing off the thermal underwear. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dudley had laughed himself silly at Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where he was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and taped glasses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Nice work if you could get it, I thought, imagining some youngish matron with a big house and nothing to do and a husband out of town on business all the time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I just sit with her, her wavy hair tickling my cheek, and I imagine that time is starting to slow down. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Never in a thousand years could Tony Chavez have imagined it turning out this way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By accepting those values, I imagined, I would move into a society that would find me as wonderful as I found it, and together we would have achieved the state of being good. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined my mom had put the bowl where it was between us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He imagined her opening the door, a wry smile on her face. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe the calmness was something I imagined, or maybe for all of us, it was just a product of the late hour. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She tried to imagine what the tide looked like, coming in and going out, nipping at the sand like a little dog, heedless of people and their machinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Each time Naima cleaned the rickshaw, she imagined scenes the rickshaw painter might invent once these panels faded. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What, can’t you stand me? Do you need to get some picture into your head so you can imagine it instead of my face?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d always imagined there were walls behind the dark, and I was surprised when there weren’t. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine throwing away a sweet—just wasting the whole thing. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve already imagined the people who would be at my side, and those in front of me, and the conversations and prayers we would share. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not imagine it properly; she did not comprehend the scale. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in a few months, what he could or couldn’t imagine didn’t matter, not anymore. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined then that I heard a car pull into the driveway. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben licks his lips and I can feel unsteadiness in his Noise and hunger and grief at what he’s already imagining is our next parting. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t even imagine the forest colors when I am not seeing them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I hardly imagine you could forget her. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was filled with sheer anger over the wretched care he was getting, even though he couldn't imagine anything for which he might have an appetite. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Theresa appraised her new apartment from the doorway — four bare walls, two filmy windows — she could not help but imagine what Helen would think of the decor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t even imagine what kind of madness is going down there right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine—having someone suggest this to you. On a subway platform.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The head of the local Klan was obviously a more complex character than many had imagined. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dang hands!” she hollered from a distance, and I could just imagine her pitching a fit. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine Papa as a child, carefree and playful. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The idea that someone could do that without meaning to was something Anya had a hard time imagining. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fern’s eyes twinkled as she imagined having a colored fairy mother. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I imagine those taunting smiles fading away as a pack of scowling hybrids show up to help me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I’d want to just imagine that I always had a dad. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine that back in college or whatever, he did not imagine that gavel use would be part of his teaching career. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“You look at something, concentrate hard enough to imagine that object moving from point A to point B, and it just...does,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined him by the shore, his skin sparkling like the sea. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, imagine the smell of flowers but sweeter, and with broken glass in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When you get older, you’ll understand that everything is much more complicated than you ever imagined. You plan your whole life, and nothing works out the way you expect.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even at that time Winston had not imagined that the people who were wiped out in the purges had actually committed the crimes that they were accused of. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t imagine the restraint it must have taken Ali to keep that promise. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine another term with this woman, and as long as I stayed on the honors English track I would be stuck being the spokesperson for the rest of my high school career. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We drove past the museum and parked right next to this basketball court filled with huge blue and red steel arcs that imagined the path of a bouncing ball. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I imagine it well, but Marv murders it instantly with one savage breath. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The bundles looked so small that it is hard to imagine they were once the girls I knew. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still she could not imagine how he could have killed himself, being so close to Theo and Jo and the baby, “all these cheerful little rays of sunshine.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Olanna could see, through the louvers, the many cots and many crying infants, and she imagined that the nurse would be confused and would bring the wrong baby. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine looking at Mom and not seeing that. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine he was most interested in you. Suddenly, something that was nagging at Harry came tumbling out of his mouth. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She imagined the Smokies, helplessly awaiting their fate, making one last gesture of defiance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got the most spectacular chills, just from trying to imagine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But trying to imagine Katherine pledging herself to a life as a spinster doesn't quite fit. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I had imagined the Gobrin Ice Plateau to be all one sheet like a frozen pond, but there were hundreds of miles of it that were rather like an abruptly frozen, storm-raised sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marly lay awake in bed, imagining how it had been. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

With the Earth the center of the Universe, with creation pivoted about terrestrial events, with the heavens imagined constructed on utterly unearthly principles, there was little motivation for astronomical observations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His jaw set when he said that, and his eyes darted to my face and away so quickly that I wasn’t sure if I only imagined it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I try not to imagine the agony he must have endured: limbs, organs, and bicycle mangled by a hit-and-run driver. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ignatius imagined it was something in his mother’s family, a group of people who tended to suffer violence and pain. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a dress I could never have imagined, one so perfect that for a moment, looking at it, I can think of nothing but its beauty. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could only imagine what it had cost her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They reminded me of smiley faces, and I imagined him to be as happy as his handwriting. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Just thinking the word Mom makes me want to cry; I can’t imagine actually writing about her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Libby was tougher than I had imagined she’d be, never once breaking down or even shedding the first tear. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It made her happy to imagine “a long vacation in that dream island I'm always talking about!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the nineteenth century–positively gripped it–in a way that no science ever had before or would again. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The grandmotherly researcher looked like an older version of my mother, and I didn’t want to imagine my mother growing old. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Put him next to the Arctic Tern, and you could hardly imagine him flying. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But what help do you require, Narcissa? If you are imagining I can persuade the Dark Lord to change his mind, I am afraid there is no hope, none at all.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At least that's what I imagine letters like this usually say. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined enemy horsemen thundering over the grass towards the castle, hundreds of them, bunched tight together at the front and widening out behind in the shape of a fan. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She imagined me, I expect, sitting down on a wet day and looking solemnly at the illustrations, and perhaps getting a sheet of drawing-paper and a paint-box and copying one of the pictures. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, imagining that I was there in my living room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She is sitting in the waiting room of this hospital, and as I try to imagine her there, I am almost certain she is crying. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They point to the current composition of state prisons as “proof” of this imagined fact, ignoring that sentencing practices distort our understanding of who is placed under state control and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“First your parents, and now your brother. I can’t imagine how hard it is for you.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

These were things so strange and beautiful you can’t ever imagine them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself whirling about in my mind like an old man attempting to catch a small boy in some mischief, thinking, Who am I? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was imagining how surprised Petra would be to have his company. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frank tried to imagine staying here with Iris, putting on a R.O.F.L. shirt, selling crystals and dream catchers to demigod travelers and lobbing gluten-free cupcake simulations at passing monsters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a dream within my dream, but suddenly I imagined the two-headed god Janus shimmering in the air next to Daedalus, smiling as he tossed a silver key from hand to hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t imagine it will take more than a few weeks—a month, at most.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The selective breeding of the strongest, smartest, “fittest” humans—unnatural selection—Galton imagined, could achieve over just a few decades what nature had been attempting for eons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But if that meant I was going to be in trouble every time I opened my mouth, my life here would be even worse than I had imagined. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Out of all the things Papi could have said, I never imagined those words. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself falling off the roof, falling backward to a sure dying and laughing all the way. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm imagining you see a tall tree with delicate leaves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine me—even with earmuffs on—shoulder to shoulder with everyone, making noise on purpose. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As I reread that night, I kept getting distracted imagining Augustus Waters reading the same words. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I’d imagined him with a mother, a sister, four or five brothers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jesse didn’t have to imagine this fate: Such people were all around him, ticked-off employees in their late thirties and forties, lots of them pleasant and adequately compensated, but few of them happy or stimulated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I also couldn’t imagine how they could help us if we needed them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine them trying to get a pic of me then?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I stood there and thought about what must have happened, about what it must have been like, although I tried very hard not to imagine what he must have felt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I imagined Kwang in a dark suit and white gloves, his parcels of tribute politely bundled behind him on the dais. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t imagine that whatever happens next is going to be particularly comfortable for me, and I would like to stay drunk in order to face it.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine why you would. She is a repellent brat.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I oftentimes was intimidated in his class,” Darryl says, which I never knew or would have imagined. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine her knuckles raised, ready to rap. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word that someone needed asylum would reach her unexpectedly, often through a stranger who approached her on the street and who she imagined had been sent by Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which, I imagine, would have been the prime purpose of the plot.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine the flowers’ petals are actually wings, but all I see are clusters of flowers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine that he taught his students anything they couldn’t learn on their own. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"But I imagine it's getting to be pretty chilly in there. And it looks mighty dark." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he returned from his first political posting, as quaestor in Sicily, for instance, he imagined his fame would have spread far and wide. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take much effort to imagine a cloud of smoke wafting from his lips. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He screams a loud, shrill cry, that pierces my heart like a stake, and I imagine that this, maybe, is how Pa died. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako could not imagine spending her life bent over, always looking down unless you made an effort to raise your eyes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined future commands, awful ones, ones that would kill me, and I glowed at the idea of obeying them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed concerned that Mr. Pirzada might take offense if I accidentally referred to him as an Indian, though I could not really imagine Mr. Pirzada being offended by much of anything. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I imagined the whole thing, too. Why does she want to kill you for?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Here, do come down from there and share a cup of tea with me. You’ve had a long journey, I’d imagine, and a rude shock, finding your home occupied by a stranger.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe the spangly outfit was just something I imagined because it was there—a flash of light—and then it was gone. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Beneath them, the floor was polished marble, and the ceiling was a strange twisting river of names that, Aru imagined, belonged to the dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was the “movement” that Aristotle had so vividly imagined centuries before. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You can imagine though tired I go to bed happy,” he wrote to his wife. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He felt an unpleasant emotion, though, seeing Odenigbo’s hand placed on her shoulder and, later, imagining them together in bed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, I imagined myself going to some Boston priest—it would have to be Boston, because I didn't want any priest in my home town to know I'd thought of killing myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He watched his parents’ faces pale as they all imagined the falling bombs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And every night I fell asleep imagining that green bubble. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The scene was worse than she had imagined! The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She invited us onto her property, a desolate piece of land we would have never imagined was inhabited, set far enough back from the road that we hadn’t seen it through the trees. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing I couldn’t imagine was actually leaving home. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The work on the frame was less than half-finished and so tangled and knotted he could imagine no one ever continuing it. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I never thought I’d be stood here faced with a choice I can’t make, because I never...I never imagined you would love me back.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He imagined the bins they used for sorting. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine a grave dug beneath scrubby bushes, hastily covered up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never imagined that questions about life would be of such importance to a shepherd. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treetops swayed in the breeze, and she imagined they were nodding their welcome to her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine it rough now, any more than I could imagine winter in summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined I was entering a fairy-tale kingdom inhabited by tree spirits. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Paula had the air of a real ideologue; she could, Ifemelu imagined, slip easily into anarchy, stand at the forefront of protests, defying the clubs of policemen and the taunts of unbelievers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like it. I can’t imagine what else he could have wanted. Maybe to kidnap her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine the courage it takes to maintain that part of their Muslim identity in the face of everything. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She stopped, unsure for a moment whether she had imagined those words, and then she looked back at the man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These boxes show up in every area of my life, even in a theater class where the whole point is to play a role, to become something imagined. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Percy imagined her nose and throat filling with her own tears. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But when the black students came in and saw the chains, as you can imagine, they felt incredibly insulted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine a satyr more different from Coach Hedge, but they both seemed brave in their own way. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At least I imagined I had a contented smile on my face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And Henry, that sounded more like a real name than a nickname, but Palmer couldn’t imagine Beans letting someone’s real name stand, so Henry must be someone else too. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Where I had imagined Yakov reaching through me, my skin itched and burned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Lupin said there would be magic we’d never imagined,” Harry said. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine whom it could have been. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that the rest of my life would not be what I had imagined. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was imagining this, but I thought the teen- aged girl looked happy to see me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You can imagine how much I felt like getting down and partying at that point, but of course I had to go. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the familiar leafy path down to the water’s edge, it was easy to imagine Peris stealing silently behind her, stifling laughter, ready for a night of spying on the new pretties. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I kept looking at the mom, trying to imagine what she must have looked like when she was young. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult for a modern person to imagine a life without zero, just as it’s hard to imagine life without the number seven or the number 31. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine his finger following me up and down the eastern seaboard, hovering right over my head the whole way. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So paranoid he even felt like every clock was actually a giant eye, and every time the bell rang he imagined it was the building laughing at him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined the callers to resemble those men who had chased me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for me to imagine this baby self. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I could imagine it—them standing in her driveway listening to the song from his car’s speakers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t have imagined how good it feels when so many people like you.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Boston looked so usual and so unconcerned, Johnny began to wonder if they all had not made mountains of molehills, imagined an expedition when none was intended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You cannot imagine how happy I am to deliver that message,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he had intended all along, I imagine. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn't imagine what they had done with Mrs. Mole. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine the blades sucking me in and spitting me out the other side, and shudder a little. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you cover that nasty tower with every wild monster you can imagine, Sierra,” Mr. Jean-Louise said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I mean, honestly, he’s just a little boy—just like you! Can you imagine how he felt to see you running away from him, Jamie, screaming?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“What if he’s not even there? I can’t imagine him hanging around when his mom’s book club is happening.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine my father smiling smugly at my mother. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I imagined Maggie holding up her cross necklace and yelling that I was a sinner. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“In a way they do, but they’ve also got to live with it the rest of their lives. Can you imagine always worrying about getting caught? About someone finding out?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Yet she couldn’t imagine going back to Riverbank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she saw her posts reposted on another site, she flushed with accomplishment, and yet she had not imagined any of this, had never nursed any firm ambition. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined it to be the best possible watch in the world, and when Kerry brought it to show me at my next lesson, it was just as good as I’d thought it would be. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It is worse than anyone could have imagined,” the father says to the mother after returning from his village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath, unable to even imagine that. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

You have to “find your character,” he tells them, meaning they have to imagine lives they cannot fully know. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first I thought I was still imagining things. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There would be a certain amount of spectacle involved in the proceedings, I imagine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want to imagine what she was telling the kids, what kinds of questions they would be asking. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I have to admit I like to imagine you as a kid fantasizing about junk food. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“As though any man ever walked up to another and offered the spirit from his veins. But I couldn’t imagine what motive you could have, so I almost believed it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

True, our island wasn’t very big, but I couldn’t imagine hiding it anywhere else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He smiled at them, such a smile as I imagined must come from fathers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As he waited for it to warm up, he looked in to the living room and imagined it as a painting. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was icy told, much swifter than he’d imagined, but that didn’t bother him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She must have imagined her friends and family being shoved into one just like it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It may well be imagined, the sensations I underwent when he told me, “It is the smallpox.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined her singing with her big sister, Bertha, in the backseat of their daddy’s car. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t how we imagined handing over our present,” said George grimly, putting down a large wrapped gift on Ron’s bedside cabinet and sitting beside Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But then he would remember the way the hook-hands of Count Olaf’s associate had glinted in the library, and would imagine them tearing into his flesh, and he would wake right up and continue reading. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Roz was designed to think and learn and change; she had simply done those things better than anyone could have imagined. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Citra’s heart beat so violently, she imagined it bursting out of her chest. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down on them so ferociously that it was easy to imagine the sidewalk cracking open and swallowing them whole. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I can only imagine how much worse it would have been sixty years ago, before you could google vitiligo and find out what it really was. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I imagined that my dad was a spy, and worked for the CIA. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Think of all the towns and cities we've never seen or imagined. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know how hard it is to imagine that what is now humanity’s highest calling was once considered a crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He never imagined he would turn any of them into scholars, “but I’d like to think I helped them in some way in the lives they went on to live.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagined August twenty-sixth, when I would wake up to see a made bed and think of Lily in Atlanta already awake and in the dorm room unpacking her suitcase, deciding where to put stuff. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He imagined Petey visiting him in the hospital, slipping into the bed with him, letting him bury his nose in her hair, letting his hands roam where they would. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And she imagined the people who had lived there fifteen years ago while she, in a little flat on the crowded mainland, longed for their spacious, serene lives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Never again, as I once fondly imagined, will I consider that Siddhartha is clever. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I gave him what he was asking for. What I imagine you want from him as well.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then imagine getting six cans of soda and stacking them in two towers close to each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

So Will opened the window wide and ran out at the head of the army of ghosts; and then began the strangest battle he could imagine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But honestly, I think I would be a very bad reporter because I can’t imagine sitting across the table from a politician or a movie star and asking them questions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, standing in the Square under the tree that touched the cell window, they smiled and signaled to him—or so he imagined. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe they did even cooler stuff with their steeds than anyone could imagine nowadays. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Constance drives me crazy, but now I can't imagine being here without her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine only too well what else the Conte could do to them if he chose. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I concentrate on the notes, imagining myself playing, feeling grateful for this chance to practice, happy to be in a warm car with my sonata and my family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once before, in first aid practice, she’d splinted a fake broken leg for another camper, but she never imagined she’d have to make a splint for herself. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ambrose drawing on his own body’s heat, concentrating as the chill slowly worked into his arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As Neel and Ajay walked home, Neel imagined a detailed scene of the mother tiger leaping through the school window and pouncing on Headmaster. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine the effect that Hofstede’s findings had on people in the aviation industry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes—it seems to depend upon nothing but the ill-humour of Mrs. Churchill, which I imagine to be the most certain thing in the world.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Looking at them now as folks chased in and out, getting ready, it was hard for Cora to imagine a time when the fourteen cabins hadn’t been there. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She avoids my stare, probably because she knows I'm imagining they are lasers and whatever I look at will be forced to spontaneously combust. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine that Hugo was planning to break up with Austin today. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine suddenly taking in four children? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her hair looked the way I had always imagined a skein of flax spun into gold by the miller’s daughter would. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Keav in heaven, watching over us, finally happy again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again I imagined Charles climbing the hill to our house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was about an artist, a lost lottery ticket, a criminal, a borrowed coat, and an opera singer, and it had one of the most amazing chase sequences that Hugo could ever imagine. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to imagine what the word really means. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined the searchers ransacking the trunks and drawers and drilling holes in the walls to look for hidden valuables. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cannot imagine him any older than he is in this picture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that’s what kept those men moving like there was no tomorrow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the place looks like nothing so much as the canal network that Percival Lowell imagined to adorn Mars, and that, we now know from space vehicle exploration, does not exist at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would have happened then, I couldn’t imagine. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With every arrow, he imagined he was striking down his problems. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When my father got back, you can imagine what he did too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined her on the dock, between us and the shark, sizing it up before figuring out how she was going to lay it out on the ground. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He tried to imagine a life where every dollar wasn’t set aside for groceries or rent or emergencies. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spent days and nights crying, imagining the pain Henrietta must have been in. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to imagine the effect on him. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to watch him, imagining myself at fourteen, imagining myself now. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She scribbles a name—not mine, I imagine—and hands the ballot back to Mrs. Moore. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined honey-colored parasites celebrating in my golden-tinted organs as I alternately froze and burned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick slabs of gray stone were cracked and covered in ivy, as ancient as anything Thomas could imagine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I find the whole thing bizarre because I can’t imagine anyone raised in District 13 being a threat the government would have to guard against. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Or if he had ever imagined a different life. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She thought of all the things she couldn't pack, imagining the slim green locker she would have had at high school next year if she weren't moving to the other side of the ocean. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And maybe we should. Can you imagine? Just you and me in London?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He imagined tigers ripping the flesh off his bones and pythons strangling him slowly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I was not bound to this job; I could imagine its rapid conclusion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine that last and couldn’t. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined Caitlin’s life as very different from mine, and I was excited to learn more about it, and her. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I began to imagine what it would be like for Paul to beat him up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar. She don’t want to talk to you. Get it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And, suddenly, I understood what Mother meant by the word imagine. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Living in a small town like ours, it’s hard to imagine that many people. Even Denver’s population is only a fraction of that.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I imagined I heard the fall of snow upon snow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s arms tightened around her legs, and she tried to imagine holding June’s hand at school. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know they’re inanimate objects—I’m not an idiot—but I imagine them all melancholic, waiting for my sister to come back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe Naomi was still silent and stern, but he imagined she was happy in her own way. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just checking for hidden shelves. This building could be filled with secrets we haven’t even imagined, you know?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would just sit off in a corner with a half smile on his face, imagining. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“See, Dèja, I don’t exactly know what happened. But I imagine. Imagining makes my head ache, explode. Pow. “This is my flashlight.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We had the most varied set of slides we could imagine,” said Palmer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she closed her eyes she could imagine the arched doorway, the Persian rug on the living-room floor, the yellow chairs and the huge window that looked over the bay. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why would Nergal write that? I cannot imagine what my brother-in-law is thinking. Gilgamesh wasn't the sort of hero who needed to lie about anything." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself making a speech and caught in striking poses by flashing cameras, snapped at the end of some period of dazzling eloquence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better than anything he or Blink could have imagined, and for a brief, bizarre moment, Joseph thought he might have actually fallen back in time, or stumbled upon a portal to the past. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

An age of revolution, as radical and savage as anything he might have imagined, was just around the corner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine him not saying one word in your defense? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But Noris was like me, she wanted to give herself to things, and at her tender age, she could only imagine giving herself to children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Bronwyn gasp and I looked up, a horror scenario I hadn’t yet imagined taking shape before my eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He thereby taught his listeners to imagine their union with many others Eke themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how I’ll ever get over it. I wasn’t dreaming. I didn’t imagine it. I heard his voice! He was begging, ‘Mom! Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only I imagined her, my little bird could always be with me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of them had their eyes closed in total delight, like they were imagining themselves flying or something. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jack could only imagine what would happen if one of those dogs was set on a prisoner. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

On my first night back, I wrote in my journal: I have so many hills I can’t imagine how I’m going to pay them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Joseph couldn’t imagine his uncle allowing anyone in the house, and he certainly couldn’t imagine a party there. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I somehow didn’t picture him with a family at all. Funny, no? What did I think? Maybe I just imagined he was born fully formed, like that goddess from the head of Zeus.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She fulfilled her promise before the imagined time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The brave tin soldier in his little paper boat—she imagined him suddenly appearing beside the fruit basket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And even though I suspected Zara just didn’t want me to report Leo, I couldn’t imagine telling all this to Mr. McCabe, anyway. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But they were mostly quirks, discrepancies, most of them so minor that it will perhaps show you how little reason I had to imagine that anything was wrong. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He imagined her walking along the sidewalk, carrying grocery bags from the supermarket that was on the next corner, in love with another man. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what—or more likely who—was in there. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were living together anyway, and he was not unhappy, and he imagined that she would, with time, gain a certain heft. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself moving, on my feet and running for the door, to the others, to safety, but I got no farther than a blink. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what Scotch tasted like, but if it tasted anything like champagne, I couldn’t imagine how he could drink so much, so quickly, so early in the morning. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Carla sometimes imagined herself being driven to school in a flashy red car the boys would admire. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I imagine they'll be here long before it comes to sleep." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined there must be places beyond Arkansas where my folks were treated better. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine a mortal man more unwilling to change his course than Nathan Price. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope so. I couldn’t imagine not seeing my parents again. Or my other family and friends.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would imagine the air in Herat crackling with merriness, and high- spirited, bright-eyed people showering each other with endearments and goodwill. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I cannot imagine why in a place with so many sharp instruments for cutting bones and thick tissues, that woman brought me such teeny nail scissors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t make out any words, but I imagined them to be things that one wouldn’t hear in church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tourist traffic on Highway 66 was gone now, and Tayo imagined white people eating their mashed potatoes and gravy in some steamy Grants cafe. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine looking over my shoulder one morning to find Al gazing at me in that sweet way. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was the first Unseen he had ever heard from a native speaker, and it sounded just as he’d always imagined it would: like calligraphy, if calligraphy were written in honey. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine having to come home,” she says of the idea of returning from a mission early, and under a cloud. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I imagine my body plummeting, smacking into the bars as it falls down, and my limbs at broken angles on the pavement, just like Rita’s sister when she didn’t make it onto the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Kepler, stubborn, intelligent and fiercely independent, suffered two friendless years in bleak Maulbronn, becoming isolated and withdrawn, his thoughts devoted to his imagined unworthiness in the eyes of God. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science was moving from a world of macrophysics, where objects could be seen and held and measured, to one of microphysics, where events transpire with unimaginable swiftness on scales far below the limits of imagining. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined running onto a field in the Chapel Hill High School team kit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It could introduce me to people and show me places I never imagined existed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine him high on a gantry, lying on his back like Michelangelo, working with a wrench on the fuel lines of one of his rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it’s true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I could imagine Aunt Ivy’s shrieks of disapproval: Next thing, you'll be drinking and carrying on! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I stuck to the directions, and to hope, and imagined that, in a short time, the trees would open up and reveal the train station sitting there waiting for me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She might have imagined it, but she thought she saw Beto flinch when she spoke. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine them all thinking furiously, trying to square their assumption of where the plane is with what their instruments are telling them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But she could imagine how they looked, how disappointed they would have been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph imagined being a stowaway and wished it was true. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For no reason that anyone could imagine, children were beginning to disappear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine it, but I thought it must be something like the way I was feeling now with my eyes closed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine my uncle doing his smooth dance steps down the wide road, smiling as the music plays loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

While it is charming to imagine the scene, the fact is the cameras that existed during Mudgett’s boyhood made candid moments almost impossible to capture, especially when the subject was a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she’d eaten ice cream and Mariam had never imagined that such tricks could be played on a palate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I imagine her to already be animal, without needing three days to get there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn't imagine a world where Willow wouldn't figure out a place for the furball. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine my mother and Gay in the same space. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I imagine that two things only would have been different. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I'm right about the booby trap, but it's clearly more complex than I had imagined. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sorry, I know you find it dull as ditchwater, but imagine how sick and tired I am of hearing the same old stuff. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine why in the world he was telling me this awful thing, but whatever the reason was, I wanted him to stop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How could they have imagined that a silent, determined team of Americans, thousands of miles away in the peaceful countryside near Washington, might pick up on this simple error? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not how I imagine he thought the day would go.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“So it’s hard to imagine her in some gross unlit dusty room.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were carrion birds in the sky, circling and cawing ugly cries that Lazlo imagined translated as Die so we can eat you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looked away often, as if she felt uncomfortable sitting with him, and Ugwu wondered if he had imagined the easy bond they had shared. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joseph couldn’t imagine anyone calling his uncle “Al,” but Albert Nightingale laughed again. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine standing up and speaking in English to an audience of adults. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Christ, Chaplain! Can you imagine that for a sin? Saving Colonel Cathcart’s life I That’s one crime I don’t want on my record.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I look way happier than you. It’s cool if you want to call this quits. If you’re still caught up on your ex, I get it. Well, I don’t get it. But I can imagine.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Never once had he imagined Dumbledore’s childhood or youth; it was as though he had sprung into being as Harry had known him, venerable and silver-haired and old. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The past week or so, Percy had imagined a lot of scathing things he might say to Nico when they met again, but the guy looked so frail and sad, Percy couldn’t muster much anger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the flash of green came, it lasted for only a magical flick of time—so brief and brilliant and beautiful, I was afraid I’d imagined it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would just sit by himself and say he was imagining melons turning into frogs. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The evil of daily life here is indescribable, and if this is civilization then it is beyond the capacity of my smallish brain to imagine the evil of a place like Natzweiler-Struthof. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With so many galaxies and therefore so many stars, it is inevitable that there are more planets than our minds can imagine. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined her seeing my soiled clothes, the little flowers she had worked so hard to make. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone’s doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, trying to imagine whatever was in there, flattened and buried for centuries in the dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined how such a thing might look from an airplane’s height—the whole island suddenly winking out, as if it had never been there at all. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I worry about them, too, but I can’t imagine how much more they worry about me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking care of other kids instead of you. Can you imagine what that’s like?” her mother demanded. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Either one is better than spending a life imagining what happened to Mom, Dad, and Javier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But as we stand over the gravestone she will share with Grandpa, listening to Ruth blow her nose, I imagine that the stone belongs to someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot? The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine her growing into an old woman here on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could only imagine how quiet the house was after that. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined my father’s voice crying in his death throes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I walked down the stairs, the Story Box on my back, to give my first official performance as Anansesem to the most dangerous audience I could ever imagine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“That's what they do, they always go barefoot. Do I have to change for this festive occasion, too? What does one wear to attend an execution? I imagine I will be sitting beside Capricorn?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Stanley shivered as he tried to imagine it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Pearl bent over the mailbox, and Mrs. Richardson imagined the faint squeak as the mailbox door opened, then shut. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was far more reassuring to go on imagining that Linus had taken ill on the plane to New York. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, the chaos was rising. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If Levi were here, I imagine he’d snap her picture at this moment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It might be something of a temptation to take over my brain, on paper, but I cannot imagine doing so in real life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine she’s a rich lady who shops downtown, drinks a glass of wine after work, and gets manicures on the regular. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I imagined them cruising around Monomoy Island, talking to each other. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Could he ever have imagined things would be this difficult? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Without warning, coming as a complete and unex-pected shock, she felt a pressure she had never imagined, as though she were being completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody who hasn’t gone through this could imagine what a nightmare this is,” he said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mark ran hard, trying his best not to imagine their pursuers or what they’d do if they caught him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she's imagining a future where we become friends. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The auditorium was even bigger than I imagined it would be— bigger even than the one at Via’s school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine he’s one of those overbearing parents who makes you ask to be excused, and only after you’ve finished all your peas and carrots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had imagined it would be something more elegant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He heard Master’s raised voice, excited and childlike, followed by a long silence and he imagined their hug, and her ugly body pressed to Master’s. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, Leo imagined he could feel it in there, dragging him down, waiting to be cracked open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Scanning the limit of the land before it curved into the rim of the sky, she tried to imagine what sorts of things lay beyond. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was from a few years ago, back when Franny and I were friends and I never imagined it would be any other way. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spent the day piling wood, imagining the party I’d have if we were still in Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get over how happy I was, crying genuine tears of actual happiness for the first time in maybe forever, imagining my mom as a Patrick. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself crossing the finish line first with everyone cheering and confetti shooting into the sky. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself sprawled on the pink blanket watching TV and eating watermelon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t imagine why not. You always know the right thing to say.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And yet there is a new maturity in her face; he can easily imagine her, a few years from now, with two children in the back seat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey chewed a bite of soggy pancake, but I imagined it tasted like gravel to her, the way everything had tasted like gravel to me since Jesse’s death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Lord will provide, I imagine Dad thinking. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She wore it in the way that Ugwu imagined his mother would if she had the same wrapper: uncertainly, as if she did not believe that she was no longer poor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The roar of the draccus was like a trumpet, if you can imagine a trumpet big as a house, and made of stone, and thunder, and molten lead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I never knew anyone who felt that way and couldn’t imagine it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he imagined himself getting squashed by a carabao or a jeepney, it terrified him, even though he wasn’t completely sure what either of those things were. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry for your fate, child. I imagine you hate me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Nate to imagine that busy New York City was just a few miles down, on the island’s southern tip. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She could hardly imagine the punishment given someone who had done something bad enough to be worth five hundred thousand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias put his head in his hands, imagining the havoc these low creatures were about to wreak on his country’s capital. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes, those would work. Let’s imagine another world, a different one again, where there are bees but no people. Would there still be a connection between a beehive and sweetness and light?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite my feelings of unease, there’s a part of me that can’t help imagining what it would be like to be the mistress of this place. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, it doesn't stop me from imagining we're free, Amma and me, together, exploring the wide-open world that lives beyond the bars. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She had, since she began to gaze at her past, imagined a relationship with him, but only in faded images and faint lines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ivy let herself imagine they were at home, sitting on the worn brown leather couch in their living room, and there was no such thing as tornados and lost notebooks. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For all the pain I felt that day, in hindsight, I have to imagine that Andrew’s pain was far greater than mine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

These profound and lovely images are, I like to imagine, a kind of premonition of modern astronomical ideas.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t imagine the panic that ensued in this place when the sun flares struck, and the horrors that resulted. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He imagined being in Frank’s position, his life so fragile, it literally could burn up at any time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined a candle falling over, the way it had on his desk, and the entire place igniting. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“When my husband died”—Jesse could hardly imagine Mrs. Myers ever having had a husband—“people kept telling me not to cry, kept trying to make me forget.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can imagine him barking those words in response to an order. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s hard for me to imagine myself as a grown-up, one of those imago things. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I imagine him standing at my window, and I smile for his sake. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“On three,” said Harry, looking back down at the locket and narrowing his eyes, concentrating on the letter S, imagining a serpent, while the contents of the locket rattled like a trapped cockroach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Grandpop was looking left to right, right to left too, probably imagining the same thing—how it used to be. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I let myself imagine it—taking classes like Politicized Geography and Nineteenth-Century British Women in Literature in small classrooms, everyone seated in a circle. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can tell she's imagining an empty bucket drifting down into the dark well and coming back, water sloshing out of its sides like tears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I imagine those who wash our clothing and bedding then carefully drape it over magueys to dry. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the shovel handle with both hands, then closed my eyes and imagined merry-olde-England in medieval times. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She had never done such a thing before—imagine tearing a page out of a book!—but now she had to. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

What did he imagine was to be gained from this slow and potentially explosive kind of torture, had it, in his mind, some purpose, some goal? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

No one could imagine this happening in the president’s backyard. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It told me to imagine myself, whole and healthy, protected by a white bubble. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She could imagine herself hurrying down now to her bedroom, to a clean block of lined paper and her marbled, Bakelite fountain pen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried imagining meeting other Holy Beings, from the Warrior Twins era, from the Changing Woman era, from the First Coyote era. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I imagined people jumping out the windows, raining down onto the broad sidewalks and cement basketball courts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the silence that followed, Briony tried to imagine the adjustments that each would be making. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Erin was and is beautiful enough to make even Bellmont tolerable, so I close my eyes and imagine her face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we must admit, out loud, that it was because of race that we didn’t care much what happened to “those people” and imagined the worst possible things about them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Audrey laughed, and if I closed my eyes, I could imagine Jesse was with us, swapping stories and cracking up at our lame jokes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then again, I never imagined I would save the Old West, perform for an audience in the desert, and solve a mystery. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Citra found it next to impossible to imagine Scythe Curie as a little girl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined the city as it was being built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Reading over the lists, I found myself trying to imagine the support groups for those struggling to overcome their fears of rust or teeth, heredity or string. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the 46th Guards were quietly idling their engines, maybe the cowering soldiers below imagined that the swooping wings sounded eerily like witch’s broomsticks soaring through the dark sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine us when we get to Washington, P.A.?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, she would sit in cafes, or airports, or train stations, watching strangers, imagining their lives, and wondering which of them were likely to have read her blog. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The more I look, the more shapes I see—faces, cars, flowers, trees, babies, clowns—and then, for some reason, I start imagining Lorena as a cheetah running through a forest. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was not until a friend suggested that she join the CIA herself that Marti could imagine a path forward. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them imagined the scene, each according t» his own predilections—Sula underneath some white man —and it filled them with choking disgust. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We imagined you would. You know we’re always here to answer questions if you need it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She did not have to wait as long as she had imagined. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Possibly he was imagining what it would be like to discover a whole new population of carriers of the 5-alpha-reductase mutation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine how I looked when 1 got to the hotel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still plenty of snow on the track, but it was better packed than she had imagined. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I can imagine how Bon told Henry, broke it to him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent so much time imagining what it would be like, how I would get along with the other students there, and the opportunities it would provide. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d imagined that a week or two after we got back to Flint we’d get a phone call from Alabama with the winner of the big batde on the other end. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to imagine what never happened: our family without Africa, or the Africa that would have been without us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if he had somehow chanced upon them, it’s difficult to imagine him destroying the buildings without boasting of the deed in his diary. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine coming this far and then turning back, but I guess there are things they have to do in the city. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Belgians and the Americans who run the rubber plantations and copper mines, I imagine, are using larger sacks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paperwork that Murphy told me to fill out was even more elaborate than what I had imagined. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only imagine what it would be like when I knew eleven hundred. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I imagine a lonely queen in a cliff-top castle, looking out at her subjects below. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“He really does look exactly the way I imagined him. ‘Colorless as a glass of milk.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For days afterward she imagined other trips she would take, alone though, to faraway places. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie could not imagine what he was about to be told. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine that we needed more than two. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to imagine meadows, I want to run through them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing, unless...was he imagining it?...a sort of throbbing. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And she just kept imagining what would have happened that night back in Georgia if she hadn’t seen her daddy, if she hadn’t heeded his warning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some went into the sand, and that sand became glass again, and that glass became all kinds of things, creating mischief beyond what even Mal could have imagined. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And I was made to listen to George Orwell’s admission that, as a literate man, he would never be able to imagine what it is like to be one of the uneducated poor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asks me to come and visit her soon, and I promise I will, though right now doing so is difficult to imagine. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

No one imagined that the prison population would more than quintuple in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I can imagine Hannah here, about two years ago, pushing off and sliding down. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One could not imagine what she was thinking as she marched so grimly down the halls, her head tied up in a rag, a bucket and a mop in her hands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I imagine the teary sighs emanating from the Capitol and pretend to brush away a tear of my own. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine an old white lady with gray hair and old-fashioned glasses hanging from her neck. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One way of thinking of spin is to imagine the particles as little tops spinning about an axis. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine that the delicious sausages I’d had just the day before were encased in the small intestines of a pig. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I imagine World War II and the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy, but with water instead of weapons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined the bricks of his wall coming together, forcing out that horrible voice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walk into the wall, imagining that I’ll float through it and come out the other side. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we stood there thinking of girls from last year and trying to imagine how they would look if they went Whoa! Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

You can imagine how it was when we got to my house and Mr. Beach told Mama what happened. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Though it was warm, Jimmy shivered, imagining how cold it was for those warriors and soldiers. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Can you imagine what they looked like when I came in?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And I can imagine that it’s us dancing out here, all on our own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He felt relieved; he had been imagining horrors, the Cruciatus Curse at the very least. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine what people would say if it were known that Hanoi has met all these conditions and then Nixon’s conniving with them kept us from getting it?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Fun, I couldn't imagine that, no matter how hard I tried. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou closed one eye and tried to imagine Annie singing from the passenger seat of that Impala as they traveled the asphalt arteries of the nation. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The space seemed to have been cleared with a purpose, but what that purpose was Tristran could not imagine. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined this was similar—only she was moving a thousand times faster, and the grass blades weren’t adoring fans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not nuts,” Dobbs roared furiously back in the ward, in what he imagined was a furtive whisper. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to push away what was in store by lying back and imagining the ceiling was the unmapped surface of a G-class planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I gaze past all of this at the ground itself, which is now slick and damp, and imagine myself lying there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And he's so surly, it's hard to imagine anyone teaming up with him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But when we made a move towards her, she too came forwards, and—perhaps I imagined it—tucked her shoulders in tightly as she passed between us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if it is all the same to you, it is far better for me to return to a meal already prepared. I could not imagine greater assistance than this.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Neither do I, although it’s not hard to imagine what it must have been like. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see her freckles from the audience, but I imagined them dancing on her nose as she flicked her head this way and that. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined them building a wooden ship in failing light and a drizzle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that everyone benefited from your willingness to share the bars of soap your mother sent. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I imagined so hard, I could almost hear the lions roar. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time we imagined the contours below her housecoat, and attempted to appraise the pleasures she could offer a man. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I can't imagine what became of my silver cross," she said, fingering the gold-link necklace under her mink stole as she paused to appraise the big house. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Erudite’s staring eye, Candor’s unbalanced scales, Abnegation’s clasped hands, and the Dauntless flames. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frank couldn’t imagine his mom growing up with Grandmother any more than he could imagine her on the battlefield—though the two situations probably weren’t that different. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Genie took it all in, trying to imagine his dad and Uncle Wood as kids, getting shooting lessons from Grandpop. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He imagined the shadowy face of a sleeping woman. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At one point a large barge nearly brushed up against us and I imagined we would be boarded by cannibals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine hard, until I can sing in a voice that's strong and happy. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined gathering speed, pedaling faster and faster, feeling the wind in my hair, going so fast. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded frustrated for some reason I couldn’t imagine. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine anything she hates more than not knowing what people are saying about her?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Willow Chance in such a setting, but maybe she would defy the odds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lazlo stared at the goddess with the painted black mask, and imagined, interposed over her crudely drawn features, the very fine ones he’d seen last night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The room was how I’d always imagined a college dean’s would look — only Carlisle looked too young to fit the part. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And then I imagine I can feel the X rays and the gamma rays, feel them pinging on my eyelids, shooting through my skull, making the palms of my hands tingle like they've fallen asleep. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent most of dinner imagining how, precisely, Daisy would retire from Chuck E. Cheese’s. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first hot bite of freshly cooked rice, plump and nutty, makes me imagine the taste of ripe papaya although one has nothing to do with the other. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Percy could imagine some of the kids at Camp Half-Blood giving such a command. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself in crop tops around town, or in a bikini by the pool, my belly ring catching the sunlight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I imagined what the other troubles might be. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As an example, imagine you are driving east on a hill; for every mile east you drive, you gain half a mile in altitude. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine this reflected girl printed on the cover of a magazine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined that she had been drugged and that was why her limbs were so weak and sluggish and why her ideas had grown so jumbled. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months ago, I couldn’t imagine what that felt like, having a parent disappear on you. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As for the blue-eyed kid, he stays on the ground, curled up in fetal position, broken and sobbing, which is how I imagine he’ll spend the rest of eternity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in the windowless room to tell her whether it was night or day, but Meggie couldn’t imagine that the night was over yet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After Chella died, he was moved into her corner, the corner that Kuttappen imagined was the corner of his home that Death had reserved to administer her deathly affairs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s no lock on my door, so I sit on the floor, leaning against it, burning up, inside out, sinking my fingernails into my arms as I imagine Muhammad’s face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself driving along on a day such as this, with the top down, his arm along the door, the wind breezing by. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She is starting to drift away from me, just as I imagine she drifted away from the girls talking next to us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And if I let myself, I can imagine our apartment fading away into the home’s dark, cramped halls and peeling yellow wallpaper. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can imagine this isn’t the way you wanted to say good-bye, but at least you'll be back soon.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were continual stampings of alarm, pausing, freezing to the spot at the sound of movement real or imagined. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost imagine us being friends, having this conversation for real. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then it occurs to me that she hasn’t imagined anything worse than this. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You can probably imagine that the constant press toward perfection might affect your relationships with others and the expectations you have of yourself. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

There is also this to consider: The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were quickly realizing that building a state-of-the-art facility was going to take a lot longer than they’d imagined. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for a moment and imagine my deliciously soft bed and the worn kantha quilt. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I can well imagine their faces tightened by incomprehension as they read my words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to imagine being forced to start your life over in a strange place, after a major trauma.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a long way down to the water; longer than I’d imagined. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I scoured the Internet and there was no news of an arrest, either, so I imagine he just ignored my email. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what a “community meeting” would look like, but my brain had nothing. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he’s imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917 they were tempted to imagine they were capturing messages destined for warships or submarines at sea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I suppose the things that transform your life don’t appear as you fancifully imagine they will. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he crawled away from the flaming wreckage, I imagine he looked more like a corpse than a living man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I can just imagine what your father and mother would say if they knew you were running around with filthy trollops like that one. Your father is a very distinguished man, you know.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We could only imagine what was going on inside. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we never explicitly talked about it, I imagine this must have been a difficult experience for him, especially with his quiet nature. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine how glad I was to hear him. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He kept imagining himself tripping and falling under the wheels, torn apart by the train. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had imagined that she lived in an apartment and I was disappointed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started imagining the shoe pushing all the way through, rubber hitting cement. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He never imagined a reality where these two groups of people would ever meet, but here they were, all to support Shawna and Reg and the kids at West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the cell phone, the explosion is soundless, but I can imagine sounds—screaming, tearing, slicing through concrete, steel, and glass. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All right. Next let’s try this. Can you imagine another world?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They could not imagine the world as the size of a piece of paper spread over a blackboard, in which whole armies were reduced to the head of a pin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine a more alienating lesson for the young than that. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey couldn’t imagine what Mr. Rudyard could do, but she was afraid he would do something. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, for example, Mexican-American students began to proclaim themselves Chicanos, they taught many persons in the barrios of southwestern America to imagine themselves in a new context. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the door had gotten stuck and Papa was trying to open it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

What she had imagined before—the smooth, gently sloping path leading out—now seemed childish. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Long after dark Kit heard her whisper outside the shed wall, so timid and faint that at first she thought she must have imagined it. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine bones at all under those layers of fat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spread my arms out even wider, and tried to imagine long robes with sleeves that flowed down along the arms of Prospero. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine myself dressed up as a Cobalt Blue Orchid. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One can imagine Hrdlicka’s disgust—Homo sapiens itself wasn’t thought to be half a million years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought I was imagining it at first. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I stared down at the page; and well can it be imagined how little I perceived of the meaning of Mr. Locke’s disquisition on space and place; though I shall transcribe and seek to understand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I imagine her sitting in an old English house, sipping hot chocolate while snow falls outside, drawing a tiny menorah on a notepad, a Hanukkah celebration for her alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The snaggle-peaked mountains, the braided green rivers, the sky so blue it seemed like a painting—Roy had never imagined anywhere so beautiful. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine either of us going for five years without writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine them now, talking excitedly, laughing in the little kitchen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is a compulsive, essentially neurotic kind of behavior, as mindless as an Ionesco character, but the wasp cannot imagine any other way of doing the thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine using a superpower to send her to the principal’s office instead of me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I wanted him to bring home actual stray animals, so imagine my disappointment whenever he’d come home with a chair.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself as the young Winston Churchill covering Kitchener’s battle at Omdurman, a battle of superior versus inferior arms, except that, unlike Churchill, he sided with the moral victor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He imagined how much trust it would take to give his lifeline—his entire fate—to another person. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cradle enjoyed such authority in B-block, it was hard to imagine the place without her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine that’s so. But look at that barn. It’s big and they been prospering.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was weird, imagining Mom having childhood friends. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’d always imagined them as huge noble animals, like lions with wings, but these things reminded him more of vicious pack hunters —flying hyenas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He looks off into space as if imagining that alternate reality. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Seth imagined that the forest would be black as a cave after nightfall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine Baba as a teenager, with his father standing over him ugly-frowning like a Pakistani Mr. T. Only it’s hard to imagine, because I’ve never seen Dada in real life. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I imagined the last second, when I would see the pilot’s face, who would be a terrorist. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And I personally can’t imagine much worse than being tried for my life by a Vermont circuit-court judge and a jury box full of telephone operators.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kids, they realized, were a great deal more sophisticated in the way they watched than had been imagined. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine that this sound which had been with me for so long could ever stop. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Grace had a pretty active imagination, but even she couldn’t imagine all the ways her parents would say no to that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on the couch and covered his eyes with his arm, trying to imagine himself giving a report on all this boring stuff. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that they’d gone to feed the big fires that had burned outside the hospital. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I would imagine he walked into the palace and looked up to see the daughter watching from a terrace above him in the grand hall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Already, the blush was gone and she wondered if she’d imagined it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Shadow imagined that he could smell snow on the air. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As recently as a week ago, in the Director’s office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how he tried to justify it, he could not imagine himself doing that. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was worse than Russ could have ever imagined. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the hippos were silent, she imagined them creeping around the tree where she had tied up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine any good coming of her continuing to possess the poor girl, but she was also desperate to speak with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined that was how the animals felt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even imagine delving into my “issues” with some shrink. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Meeting you guys was cooler than anything I could have imagined,” he said to the members of Flush. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even imagine what that meant to him, but next to her, Joaquin was still, unmoving. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

With his face so close to the surface of the sea he imagined he could smell the salmon running. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Such a life of glamour, you cannot imagine! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

To imagine means simply to make an image—a picture—in our minds. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw some inspiration from beaches I’ve gone to before and imagine a setting not too different from Golden Gardens. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seems impossible to imagine that there was a time when I looked upon a live sea turtle as a ten-course meal of great delicacy, a blessed respite from fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When things come to an end in a way you don't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ghosts that he and Petey had seen or imagined on their rides were sleeping, perhaps, and Finn had the graveyard to himself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I actually imagined my mother, as frugal as she was, waking up from a coma and saying, “You spent how much.? You idiot. You should have saved that money to look after your brothers.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Among other problems, most had small seeds—imagine trying to feed a family on sesame seeds, and you have some idea of what it would have been like to subsist on maygrass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep watching the rise and fall of Rose's breaths and tried to imagine us in another time, building instead of running. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined riding on the backs of those cranes, flying to wherever he was. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the way he’d imagined, but maybe it made no difference. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined a shark popping her head above water, getting a look at a colony of fat, tasty seals sunning themselves on the rocks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined the two of us sitting in the courtyard, chattering away under the mango tree, without Sass there to scold, and with no worries about Hari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what it was like for him to mail out these tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I had never imagined such a thing would be possible. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was scary at first, but thrilling too, and pretty soon I was imagining I was a cowgirl, riding off into the sunset. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it had started. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine him putting down the phone, picking up his little girl, giving her a kiss, embracing his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not even known how to imagine it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His lips are soft, softer than I could have imagined, but there is a hard desperation behind them, a need. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t look at Diego without imagining his dead-eyed stare as he attacked his father, without wondering if he’d enjoyed the sound of cracking bones or smiled when he saw the blood on his hands. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sitting by myself on the train, I tried to imagine that I was Yakov. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, can you imagine that! He didn’t say ‘kaw’ at all. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She rattled her iron jewelry and imagined how pleasant it would be to step up behind Stannis and throttle him with the chain that bound her wrists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Be my second eye,” the captain says, “and you shall have riches and grand adventures beyond imagining.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine what you are like now. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine just going into a courtroom and straight-up making up a story that puts an innocent man on death row? I'm not sure we can trust anything he says.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I drank some chocolate milk and then lay down on the sofa in the living room, not really sad, just floating, trying to imagine what it was to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know that he was an animal we had yet to imagine could exist. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In the countless hours of darkening thoughts, Kathy imagined again where she would live. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine the words you’d use, dear reader, to tell your family that your parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We can imagine generating a cube in the following way: Take a line segment of a certain length and move it an equal length at right angles to itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer was sure it had nothing to do with a meeting place, or stealing gold from goldsmiths, or anything Heqet had imagined. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Distantly, he imagined he could hear the low hums of the temple's brothers in the adjacent wing’s worship hall, the scuffle and slide of their sandals as they prepared for the day’s visiting patrons. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her coffee-colored hands looked old, but well-manicured and elegant, so I imagined she was a grandmother who had once been a beautiful lady. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

All day long I had been imagining dancing with Manuel, holding his hand, maybe having him give me a good-night kiss. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A more complete vision of chaos would be hard to imagine. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I can just imagine how that went, the other soldiers falling all over themselves to lay down their jackets every time Miss Duncan needed to cross a puddle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I imagined a bar on wobbly trestles, liable to fall down at any moment. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

You cannot imagine how I was feeling then. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He is very old, Minli thought to herself, imagining the growth of the trees. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like it or not, even those who insisted that Bruno was wrong when he described an infinite universe were forced to imagine what it would be like if he were right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine something with no width and no height—with no substance at all—being a square. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I know what the word means, Dad. But I’m not imagining things. My colors are as real as this house.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harry went back to the castle later that afternoon with Ron and Hermione, unable to banish the image of the happy expression on Hagrid’s whiskery face as he had imagined Harry winning the tournament. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I can’t even imagine trolleys on 125th Street,” he said, instantly recognizing the heavy awkwardness of what he was saying. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to imagine him hunched somewhere, his fingers twisting the dials of a phantom radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember him little, could only imagine his older face—sharp cheekbones framed by floppy hair—atop a compact little body like Loo’s. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could imagine what a disappointing wish that would be for a six-year-old, but I had to plant crops. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baloney! I can just imagine the ladies swimming with the rats biting their legs!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“For someone so superstitious, you risk angering the gods by not attending. I imagine that an assassin would take more interest in the day of the dead.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Crammed in the car, the group sometimes tired of chess talk and reminisced about other adventures, real or imagined. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined a mob of Black Panthers saying it with me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The reality, though, is more painful and tiring than I had imagined. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I ask it, I suddenly can see that my mom looks worried and tired, and I try to imagine what would be happening right now if it was me and not Finch who’d disappeared. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I thought I was imagining it when I heard the cackling, but then I looked at Amaka—and sure enough, she was laughing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now think of a location and its sound, and imagine a recognizable sound associated for that place. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The life of the wild animal is simple, noble and meaningful, they imagine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cup my palm, imagining a butterfly landing in it, feeling the flutter and life, and I go to a sleeping, remembering, dreamworld. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined she had on sweats and a T-shirt, and had her hair wrapped in a silk scarf, like my mother used to do before she went to bed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Too well he could imagine the kindly eyes clouding, the smile fading into discouragement. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Especially having lost Anthony’s goodwill, I have to imagine, by sniffing around his Hanes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Calypso shook her head, as if she couldn’t imagine those two words going together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I imagine that crown on Oak’s brow and flinch from the image. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could imagine all the fear, isolation, and hopelessness they must be feeling. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was completely absorbed, except for one small part of my mind that wondered what Edward was doing now, and trying to imagine what he would be saying if he were here with me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Laila imagined it had been this way for her brothers too. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since I hope Newjack constitutes an argument against that sort of thinking, I don’t imagine I’ll ever win those people over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was imagining the civil liability, for Reggie, and his folks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I never imagined he would be part of the quest,” she said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly don’t like to imagine the life I could have had, the one without magic in it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After all, it was “painful” to imagine that one might be “not just right”— particularly if whatever was wrong was not your own fault but “maybe a thing you were born with.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that I’d grown used to his voice, I couldn’t imagine him not saying shall or decorum. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine flashing lights and people bumping into each other and drug trolleys zooming around like fast cars and that’s how it was in our living room now. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge briefly imagined what Tab would say about that. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It's better than I ever imagined, better than I dreamed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Strut, stand, and imagine. No, don’t look away, don’t look down, look out there. Yes, just like that. What did you say your name was?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine what my mom would say if she knew about the dance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To her, he said, “Yeah, that’s cool. I imagine I’m not her favorite person right now anyway, so she probably wouldn’t be too thrilled to see me in your room.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He seemed far away and mild, the way you might imagine a king would be if he had nothing to worry about. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m fast, but I’m not fast enough to outrun the whispers I imagine chasing at my heels. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s funny—I always imagined dating someone would be pretty straightforward, once you established you liked each other, but it’s not. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was far less exciting than I had imagined. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t imagine that they could have much evidence against her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now imagine what it is to live in a world with Specters in it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that this is what it must’ve been like decades ago, before the cold lights of computer screens and tablets and phones permanently eliminated the peace of darkness from our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They say, “Listen, it’s really very easy. Imagine left-right. Imagine forward-back. Okay, so far? Now imagine another dimension, at right angles to the other two.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what she imagined he would think in such a moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And they imagined that they were singing to fellow officers fresh from the fray. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night before turning off the lights, Roy would lie on his pillow and stare at the poster, imagining that he was the sinewy young bull rider in the picture. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined our escape, a midnight flight to the safety of the Princess. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that some of his stories really happened. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet felt the cold white sheets and imagined that she was holding Bo’s little hand, so warm... The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easier to imagine she’s mine and mine alone when there’s no specific tie to anything else, no reminders of black and white. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined his hands quivering with fear, a wet patch spreading on his trousers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Yossarian remembered, “a very funny thing happened—maybe I dreamed it. I think a strange man came in here before and told me he’s got my pal. I wonder if I imagined it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself as a dentist, removing that gold tooth, pocketing it, and refitting Mr. Trepid with something else, maybe something red, maybe plastic, shaped like a fang. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had he really seen them or imagined them? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing I like best is how you never do what I imagine you will. For instance, I didn’t think you’d duel over me.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Voices echo up and down the line, more than I could’ve imagined would survive. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Possessed by the spirits of the girls, can you imagine! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in the city, I couldn’t imagine a differing landscape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine it’s different for him now, no lazy Saturday sex or scrambled eggs, instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hung the Nixon button on the wall in what I imagined to be the oldest boy’s room. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Those policemen asked me the same thing, Tandy, and I cannot imagine how anyone could have entered your apartment without a key. I’m stumped on that one.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I love him immediately and imagine him to be good-hearted and loud and the owner of a horse. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

To imagine that there were possibilities after Izio and this war, even if they were possibilities I wouldn’t really want. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The idea is so ridiculous to me that I can’t even imagine what it might feel like to hold someone’s hand in public. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“He's away more than he’s here. Off with my eldest boys in Islamabad. Chasing politics at his age. Can you imagine?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And I found myself doing what I have long since banned myself from doing—that is, imagining my parents were coming back, with David and Joseph, and wishing they were. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a monthly stipend. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The truth of a marriage can be understood in a much shorter time than anyone ever imagined. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

No one knows the details, so let’s imagine them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

All day, mile after mile, he let himself imagine they would be greeted with food. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine?” she says after a second, her voice hoarse. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He imagined beetle blades out there, helping the creatures find their way. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I imagine some prisoner checking it out and reading my book within that book. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She imagined them nursing quiet plans for her wedding; her mother would think of a caterer and colors, and her father would think of a distinguished friend he could ask to be the sponsor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I imagine Inka being some statue princess that no one pays attention to, but what they don’t know is that she holds the secrets of all who talk around her. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She often imagined him standing in the middle of a gathering of rapt villagers, talking in that sonorous voice about the great nation that Biafra would be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sticky must have been thinking about the same thing, because when they had rejoined the girls at the table, he said, “Can you imagine a worse job than being a Helper?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The kinds of things that people create through this network of stories are known in academic circles as ‘fictions’, ‘social constructs’, or ‘imagined realities’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can also imagine that same person, over time, getting familiar enough with the material that he begins to judge, very well, what kinds of responses work best with what kinds of people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bump on my head is throbbing, and I can’t stop thinking about the argument I saw, or imagined, or dreamed about, on Saturday night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine the play of the words in your head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You only imagined it," said Ralph shakily, "because nothing would bulge. Not any sort of creature." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"My great-grandfather married a Swedish girl, you know? So the family has light-colored blood, and that Sandi got it all. But imagine, spirit of contradiction, she wanted to be darker complected like her sisters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A much broader group was stirred up over the shooting than I had imagined. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I defended myself, as I imagined, against the fear my father made me feel by remembering that he was very old-fashioned. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

All I could do was imagine having my own kitten. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They did not imagine that there was anything in this little land that would stand up to twenty of their kind together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She couldn't imagine that any other kid had presented something as precise. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Even though I could imagine biting into fluffy buttermilk pancakes, lightly dusted with powdered sugar and a dribbling of warm maple syrup, my mouth tightened with bitterness. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cora imagined the posses massing in the woods, girding themselves for a dash into the field. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine that kindergartners would care about gender one way or the other. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I imagine him getting run over by a truck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine a less hospitable place for a nineteen-year-old nonconformist. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pain is beyond imagining now, but still I run. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined how May had rolled the rock from the bank out into the river, then lay down, pulling it on top of her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, it was more wealth than I ever could have imagined existed on this earth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine my father, a portly bear who I have never seen move faster than a brisk walk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Mrs. Lynch, with her gray hair, wrapped in a bun, as a teenager, dancing to music in the living room with my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I tuned in to the creek’s gurgle, imagining a pristine river on a deserted island, its shore lined with orchids and gardenias, with birds warbling sweet melodies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For months after my father’s death, long after I had arrived in Chicago and found a home in the stained brick and wharfs of the Levee, I had imagined my father still underwater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It rushes, pours like I imagine a waterfall would. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I imagine it will involve a high level of destruction.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

No, for he spoke to himself, not to an imagined audience. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, Esperanza had written in her book on the land of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken more running and leaping and sliding than he had imagined. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ride home wasn’t exactly the way Will had imagined it would be when he realized he had invited Claire to come bike riding with them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

To calm myself, I imagine her in a sari. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was exactly what you’d think of when you imagined a college campus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Their eyes follow you, right? I’m not imagining it?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As I think about my impetuous brother, I can imagine him being that young man who made a run for the forest, doing everything he possibly could to try to survive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“You just can’t imagine how different it is from what we’re used to. At home we have cities and cars and things because nature is organized a whole different way.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the security cams and imagine what the square's crowd looks like. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop myself from imagining it, like some sort of television show. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Salva shook his head, unable to imagine what life would be like in the camp without Uncle. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor imagined the bottleneck a hundred bats would cause trying to get in the door downstairs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel could almost imagine she was sailing home to Camp Jupiter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

By this time Kyla and Larisa were giggling nervously, and I can only imagine what the audience must have thought at the sight of me running in circles behind the podium. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I choke back a laugh remembering this now, imagining Helene's face if she knew she was being referred to as a siren. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Which, you can imagine, is a problem at a monastery. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In kindergarten, when the teacher had asked this question, Warren had answered with his plans for that afternoon—the afternoon being as far into the future as his five-year-old mind could imagine. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seven years after composing his Pathetique sonata, Beethoven stopped sounding like Mozart or Dussek or Haydn and started creating music beyond what they had imagined. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I imagined Ravi would greet me first and with a tease. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just embrace it. That’s what I did. I remember looking in the mirror and deciding my prom was going to be suck-free, even if it wasn’t going to be how I imagined it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I had nothing left to even imagine such a death. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing more he could do—nothing but imagine last- second problems. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was truly biblical; a fog I could imagine God, in one of his lesser wraths, cursing the Egyptians with. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined Akira growing up, flying a plane and dropping a bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Me!” she replied with a smile of astonishment, “are you imagining me to be Mr. Elton’s object?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The horizon is a million adults zooming past me, is a line of yellow taxis, is more than you could possibly imagine. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine why any newsperson would want to talk to somebody who can only talk through a machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was the strangest thing to find within these walls someone who was more like myself than I could have imagined. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine how she figured on living in such surroundings. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Similarly, after Paul Revere had passed on his news, you can imagine that all of the men in the militia movement gathered around and made plans to confront the British the following morning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you really want to imagine something, try imagining what it would be like to empty every word from your head and then look at the universe. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he was incarcerated there, he couldn’t imagine what workers were available and ready to work long hours a day after the hurricane, but the answer makes a certain amount of sense. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself doing things I could not do—charging an enemy position, taking aim at another human being. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined their discussions were the same as the ones in this kitchen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Darwin imagined that the cells of all organisms produce minute particles containing hereditary information—gemmules, he called them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined quietness, delicacy, the kind of woman whose sneeze, whose laugh and talk, would be soft as the under feathers closest to a chicken’s skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the shortest sentence, three years, was more than I could imagine. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Talking fish? What would they say? 'Please don’t fry me'?” I push the door open, and her face is just like I imagined. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine him having to leave Pagoda Pizza. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except, I could imagine him sitting between Mom and Nana, kicking me under the table as my brother unleashed his most embarrassing stories about me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I can’t even imagine what that must be like,” she said quietly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

You could imagine these feathers moving in the air. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine him standing in the dark all day. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare imagine who else it might be. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Commonly, the universe is naively imagined to follow human or animal precedent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine Violet at home right now, on the other side of the computer, her perfect mouth with its perfect corners turned up, smiling at the screen, in spite of everything, no matter what. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine Cardan swimming in a lake, jumping in the water, splashing people, laughing at something other than their suffering. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Miranda imagined the scene she began to cry a little herself. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine that this landscape of loops was made one link at a time, starting that afternoon in the art room. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That’s why with everything I do and write, I imagine the kind of mom I’d like to be to my children later on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine Capricorn being afraid of a woman, certainly not one who got out of breath when she climbed a hill and was scared of snakes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we are little we imagine how it would be to have wings, but there is no reason to suppose it is the same feeling birds have. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what it must be like staying there now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandmother had described land mines, but they were far, far worse than Nhamo had imagined. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have all the space I can imagine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never imagined a man like him, an American like him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, begor, it was a fine state of business, as you may imagine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel likes to imagine peeking underneath George’s white hair, underneath the flesh and bone, and into the pulsing brain of George M. Flores. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was imagining that or not. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except much worse, if it’s possible to imagine: a strange pattern of dark, round burn marks all along her cheek. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m imagining the worst, like he got into a fight with his interviewer, and now he's banned from applying to any college at all, and his future is ruined. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined a long loaf of pan de agua, the kind the baker made with a coconut frond down the center of its crunchy crust. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t imagine why he needed all that muriatic acid, but would he keep that much around if he really was the acid thrower? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Before I could fully imagine the tragic end of my life I heard an ambulance wailing up the Norvelt road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That didn’t stop me from imagining her, perhaps even looking down on me now. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

By and large Huygens imagined the environments and inhabitants of other planets to be rather like those of seventeenth- century Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't imagine what it must have been like to see every building on the East Side engulfed in flames like these. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I imagine books jammed between the dresser and the wall, books under his mattress. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I can't even begin to imagine what I look like: mismatched clothes, my hair loose and tangled, a run in my stockings. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She imagined that if she fell asleep here, her body would sink into the earthen floor and turn to mulch. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I thought about the young woman in the shack, how she’d treated me so nice, and then I imagined what it must have been like for Dad to go into a burning house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, this desperate measure wasn’t encouraged by the air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As he waddled around, giggling for the American doctor, Farmer’s famous blush spread over his forehead and down his neck, and, I imagined, past his necktie toward his feet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I put my face in my hands and try not to think, try not to imagine anything at all. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined Abuela with tubes and monitors strapped all over her body. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined swallowing a mixture of the two and coating my throat with them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine what twentieth- century classical music would have done without ballet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This does not prove, as some have imagined, that he was a secret Copernican, only that there were plenty of craters to go round. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could hear Momma’s voice getting farther and farther away as I imagined I was in the story until finally her voice and the story all mixed into one. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were low, dull thumps on the door and Mark imagined Bruce’s people half out of their minds wanting to get through, beating on it in frustration. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined he did that in the boardroom of his land development company and made his employees nervous. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wonder if my mom’s up there in heaven or simply up there somewhere—maybe even on some after-death spaceship or something, like Boy21 had imagined. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to imagine what the Taliban would do to his father if they were caught. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He gripped my jacket with a force I wouldn't have imagined he was capable of exerting. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They would be throwing away their life, and taking somebody else’s life for some moment they imagined would happen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bees were more fragile than I ever imagined. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and saw what he imagined was the great wing of an eagle pouring a wet lightness over him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We can imagine these wormholes as tubes running through a fourth physical dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte was dead, but George was alive in a way she had never imagined. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’d attached so much of himself to those three concrete steps, and he couldn’t imagine moving somewhere far away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We imagined what would happen if a grease fire broke out in the kitchen, or if an electrical fire started in the basement, or if lightning struck from above. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe I was imagining it, but some people actually nodded in my direction and smiled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She willed herself to imagine her mother, who would know what to say and how to comfort her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she boosted me up so I could get a drink. And imagine, all these years later and we’re married and have two kids.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look forward to sharing my writing, and no longer imagining myself as the “starving artist.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In a very real way I imagined my own execution. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He tried not to imagine what was happening just below the attic floor: every single thing they owned—their furniture, Cleo’s toys, Mom’s cookbooks, Dad’s trumpet and all his music—being covered with water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan didn’t know the path that led him from an old-guard scythe to Goddard, but he could imagine. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was so fast, the descent of the kite and the gliding away with the chick grasped in hooked claws, that Olanna thought she might have imagined it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s not how you might imagine the hero of a story. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s good. I imagine all the sisters are black.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

‘Are those their drums? I began to think I was imagining them, as no one else seemed to take any notice of them.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“If you imagine what it’s like to have your back up against the wall all the time, you might be less likely to assume someone’s stupid and evil.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The storm must have been even more violent than he’d imagined. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine the man’s complaints when Carpenter suggested that he stand in whenever one of their gang was too besotted, or incarcerated, or otherwise unavailable for their nocturnal missions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“After she died, they ran off into the woods and went wild. I imagine there are hundreds of them out there.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But then I imagined that LOL on her tombstone again and suddenly felt too silly to say anything else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine any relative of Abe’s being so perfectly clueless?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’d paste gold stars on the ceiling and imagine them twinkling day and night. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You sound surprised, as if you never imagined these people capable of such things.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jason imagined what the palace must have looked like when it was newly built, with Imperial guards walking the ramparts and the golden eagles of Rome glinting on the parapets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in his presence she imagined herself young and beautiful again, the sonnet lady desired by a man who could not have her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Though we stood in Denmark’s woods, there floated as on abreeze the imagined scents of the distant Bible lands: myrrh and aloe and henna and cinnamon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I imagined his mother looking for me at the graduation ceremony, asking him where I was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I began imagining myself a handless beggar in the market, unable to even use the bathroom. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The public—and the scientists themselves—imagine that the quality of the evidence determines the outcome; actually, we are told, it is the status, power and rhetorical skill of the combatants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The way he says my name is a little more comforting than the way I imagined that creep Philly would say it; it’s more like a conductor giving a pep talk before a sold-out performance. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few people even imagined they smelled poison smoke and saw fire caused by the Martians’ heat ray. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined all of Herat knew this morning how she’d disgraced herself. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The connections between modern landmasses and those of the past were found to be infinitely more complex than anyone had imagined. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I imagine each room as the beauty workshop of a Belle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

My arms and legs felt like the heavy bags from Dad’s gym, and moving them took more effort than I ever imagined possible. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He imagined how it would have felt to be here if his name hadn’t come out of the Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine living your whole life thinking you made a mistake?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined her listening to Chuck Parson babble at her and thinking about ways out, about the living ways out and the dead ways out. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined her in the distant release site, hearing word of the attack and worrying about me from afar, and my father waking up in Miami to terrifying news. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

This myth about spontaneous combustion would be accepted as scientific fact far longer than might be imagined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Then I imagine them landing on a cloud and sitting there, waiting to be answered. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The AEC chairman could not imagine how a bifurcated weapons program would operate or how the reduction in responsibility for the Super would affect morale on the New Mexico mesa. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine having to deal with that many uncontrollable things going on in my body. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine what it was about me that could burn up Mary so. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Penelope imagined it, but it seemed to her that a dark look briefly shadowed the face of the enigmatic old coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Ophie could understand why someone would want to do that, even though she couldn’t imagine abandoning her people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“She will be in a few minutes. We’ll have to move her in with you for a while, I should think; I can’t imagine her wanting to sleep in here again.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to imagine feeling any color but muted gray. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Though Janice seemed sweet, I had no trouble imagining him capable of murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, when he called, it was easy to imagine an answering bark. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She could imagine what he was thinking: “There are so many patients to see and treat, and I need to spend every minute with them.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Shame filled Turner, and his heart beat against his chest so loudly that he imagined it could be heard above the waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She imagined coming home to them without any food. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever he'd imagined his homecoming, he had always pictured himself returning to the snug bedchamber in the Sea Tower, where he'd slept as a child. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But what I wanted to tell him was that he had saved my life in ways he never imagined, or ever could. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't even begin to imagine what mysterious circumstances led to your being outed to the universe, but it doesn't sound pleasant, and I know it's not what you wanted. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At home, he must have had a system, though Lazlo couldn’t imagine what it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyway...can you imagine anyone wanting to convert now? Publicly? It would be too dangerous.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For a terrifying moment, Frank imagined they’d all be crushed under tons of earth—a disappointing way to die, after all they’d been through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine deep down inside of her that she didn’t. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s planning a road trip, using the map to imagine routes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Removed some skin, I would imagine. A few small parts. Nothing too essential.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This attach^ case' - he nudged it with his foot - 'is chock-full of notes on every possible angle one can imagine.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were ears everywhere, or at least we imagined them there. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set the cup on the terrace railing and gazed over the valley as if imagining battle lines. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He imagined that a call would come to him, a voice of Command, the voice of a subaltern of God, hashmarks running down his arm for a thousand miles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really cannot imagine what more you might wish for in life.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine what Carlos wanted to give Pop. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I imagine your ink would just freeze now,” Yishan said with a slight undertone of annoyance. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

You could almost imagine yourself free, and walking in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Inside it there were three knights and a seasick brachet Anything less suitable than these to the tradition of the Gaelic world, It would have been impossible to imagine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason I imagine it to be something like Alison, but mostly I just think of her as the running girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He imagined her clients instantly trusting her ability. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined going into the garden, where Jaja was on his knees, digging out a clump of mud with my fingers and eating it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could imagine the scene—the manly punches to the shoulder, the horseplay. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine what all four of those together smelled like? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you imagine there’s something you could be doing better?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Like I either imagined it, which is quite possible, or I’m overreacting, which will buy me a trip back to the drug- induced dreamland I’m trying so hard to escape. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was barely six; she couldn’t imagine that Wash would be down by the river yet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lightly hitched to society, he imagined himself bound to grander forces. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicho lets go and I extend my arms and touch the empty space around me, imagining him still there. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But their effect was more than either of us could have imagined. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered Margie and her mother and imagined them in New York, wearing beautiful clothes and eating bright yellow eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I imagined my father’s face, his dark eyes shrinking, his mouth clamping into a frown as he turned to my mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I just kept imagining there was some Flathead Indian grandma in the kitchen, just making fry bread for all the room-service people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined Coach Hedge getting impatient and aiming a ballista at the man in purple, or eidolons possessing the crew and forcing them to commit suicide-by-Hercules. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined being the only white girl in a room full of Negroes and shivered. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sixteenth president of the United States of America did not, as you might imagine, speak in a rich chocolaty baritone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I felt myself in motion, still directed toward the total possession of my body, but by some other route which I could not before then have imagined. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, I couldn’t imagine getting to know someone like you,” Javier said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But it was already autumn when they arrived in the city, and the air had not been as warm and gentle as Prosper had imagined it to be. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You can't imagine how much I wanted to contact you in the past six months. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Meggie felt as if those stars were eyes giving away their presence and imagined she could hear them whispering, “Look, Basta, there they go, down there! Quick, catch them!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She is less anxious than she’d have imagined, here alone in this room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Dad’s face, but I imagined his eyes bulging out and his cheeks turning bright red. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I am frequently mistaken for the god of love. Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine. But I am Death. I assure you.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I also couldn’t imagine another year with people who made me feel uncomfortable in my own skin. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This claim was usually met with polite smiles when I was in the room, but I can only imagine the hysterical laughter and conversations about my cross-dressing when I wasn’t around. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And she must have been just imagining the smell of peppermint. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And I can't imagine a scenario where I won't want to kiss your face off as soon as I see you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I'd been working on something in private and now began to imagine bringing it to a live audience. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I stare at the ceiling and imagine my prayers traveling up, up, up and hovering over my bed until they lift all the way through the roof. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I have to hold very still to make sure I’m not imagining it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sunday mornings in this year of grace 1965, imagine the “Christian conscience” of congregations guarded by deacons barring the door to black would-be worshipers, telling them “You can’t enter this House of God!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this single sun-drunk stripe, Weep was as lush as Lazlo had always imagined it to be, and the rest of the city looked more dead for the contrast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was such a pretty day you couldn’t imagine anything coming along to spoil it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined them just shutting off like factory machines at the end of a shift: functioning, purposeful, and then just out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Odin makes straight for Fenrir, the wolf, now grown so huge as to be beyond imagining. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her features were a little heavier than I’d imagined, not quite so fine as those of the Jess in my head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can imagine you lying on a carpet somewhere listening to it, eating Oreos, and maybe writing in a journal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For one second, the time it takes to blink, I imagine throwing my sponge into the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I would imagine him trudging behind a long caravan back to Isfahan, broken. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He glanced around constantly, imagining that he could feel his scar prickling.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I imagined that Hamlet, restored to himself, would learn from Horatio that I lived. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I knew I wasn't imagining the awed looks of our comrades across the table. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Five hours ago, before he knocked on Guitar’s door, he had stood on the top step, dripping in the summer rain that still patted the window, imagining that the drops were tiny steely picks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured her visiting him, and not being able to touch him because of an unbreakable window, and I imagined her wanting to unlock his cage, knowing she couldn’t. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine him with feathers in his dark hair and wearing beaded buckskin like in the newspaper serials. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Well, it wasn’t easy for him, as you can imagine. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Passing the anchor on the way, he skimmed his hand over its whole length, and tried to imagine it rippling and morphing as it apparently had for the dark god Skathis. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

About every five minutes I would imagine that I was hearing horses, and jump around ready to run for it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth could imagine being an Ancient Greek, walking into the Parthenon and seeing this massive goddess with her shield, spear, and python, her free hand holding out Nike, the winged spirit of victory. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had never imagined that the day would come that he might see such a thing, a body floating in filthy water, less than a mile from his home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He sounded surprised, as if he were unable to imagine something that Forks couldn’t offer. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I imagine him my age and think of all the questions I need answers to. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He imagined the deportation team arriving instantly, with snarling dogs, and ropes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined my arms swinging heavy at my sides like two thick hoe handles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But when I imagined stepping back into my life, all I could see was a parade of people living and dying on me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The sky arched over them, higher than they could have imagined, a pale, clear blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She kept climbing, but she imagined him watching her with those piercing blue eyes, his jaw set with confidence. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair smelled of smoke, and if he closed his eyes, he could almost imagine they were at the campfire at Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z