Dexter Palmer, The Dream Of Perpetual Motion Quotes

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.