Quote by N.K. Jemisin

“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for…

— Marcel Proust

“To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The victims remain in the most unlikely places—in the hearts and minds of strangers who can’t escape their silence. I believe in ghosts. I…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we…

— Victor Hugo

“And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to…

— Cornell Woolrich

“I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

“These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in…

— J.D. Stroube

“I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.”

— Laura Kreitzer

“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people…

— Frances Hardinge

“This was the worst story yet. The phantom life that might have been.”

— Louise Penny