Cal Devens — memorable quote from Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

“Dreams, ambition, love, hope; in this world, could the glories of a youthful heart be.. forbidden?”

“None of that will ever happen. I hate myself! But still, I have to keep these fantasies going! If I have a thousand of them, at least one of them might come true one day. If you stop fantasizing, you have no choice but to be crushed by reality.”

“When you give up, your dreams and everything else, they're gone.”

“That's right... This world... is cruel. It hit me that living was like a miracle.”

“It's not like something is going to happen because I believe in it. Sometimes you end up worse off because you believed in something too much. There are times it's tough to believe in something.”