S. E. Hinton Quotes

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.