Phantom Universe Quotes

#1. You've got to be responsible for your own happiness - you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

Julian Barnes

#2. He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.

Laura Kreitzer

#3. A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#4. Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Meg Rosoff

#5. There's a wild that's fucked and there's a wild that's just, plain wild. You just hooked yourself to a different kind of wild, Tess, and I swear, baby, swear," his arms squeezed before he finished, "I'll show you that's a good, safe place to be.

Kristen Ashley

#6. A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

Lars Von Trier

#7. Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

Al Jourgensen

#8. She notices the unyielding ruthlessness of the storm; the crashing waves, the bitter sky kissing the water on the horizon, the keening laments of the sharp, cutting wind, and the relentless liquid deliverance of its somber showers. She'll never forgive the audacity of the storm's neglect.

Laura Kreitzer