antichrist

 "you have to have the courage to stay in the situation that frightens you. and then you'll learn that fear isn't dangerous"

['antichrist' - lars von trier, 2009]

fifth business

 

"this is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries."

['the deptford trilogy: fifth business" - robertson davies, 1970]

tropisms*

"words are the verbal translation of a non-verbal communication"
-nathalie sarraute

[* a scientific term used to describe the natural tendency of plants to grow in the direction of heat and light]