Phantom Quotes

163 quotes by 134 authors

For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was in far more… — Christine Feehan
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where itâ€”sheâ€”is waiting for me. Do you know about… — Audrey Niffenegger
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,… — Virginia Woolf
Percyâ€™d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. Thatâ€™s how his mind feltâ€”like his missing… — Rick Riordan
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable â€œsomething else,â€ but now it was the opposite. Here,… — Laini Taylor
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this… — Herman Melville
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream — Charlotte Bronte
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings;… — Kristin Hannah
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain… — J R Ward
XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the… — Stephen Crane
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different… — Erving Goffman
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain… — J R Ward
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer â€” that it was better to leave well… — Tom Perrotta
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot… — Carl Sandburg
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was â€• a phantom life, taunting… — Laini Taylor
If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the… — Rick Riordan
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death — John Keats
That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through… — Cassandra Clare
I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and… — Nora Ephron

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