“ The constant clamor of the booths and barkers served as an exhausting reminder that he had to choose a fate, and that no matter which fate he chose he could be certain that it would not be the best, t… Dexter Palmer
“ He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was projected upon him by the gaze of others who looked on him; as such it was ephemeral, there and gone as soo… Dexter Palmer
“ And as Sean climbs into bed and closes his eyes, Mother comes, riding astride a lion the size of a house, blowing a clarion from a horn made out of a hollowed-out elephant's tusk. Her eyes have a fain… Dexter Palmer
“ 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. Dexter Palmer
“ …inside of a year, almost all of the stuff of which you were made got regularly switched out for other stuff, as you ate and drank and breathed, and yet if you said you had the same identity you did a… Dexter Palmer
“ This had been happening more and more often: the two of us come upon each other by accident in the early hours of the morning and take solace in each others' company, weathering out the peril of being… Dexter Palmer
“ And all of these involved remembering that someone existed whom you hadn’t thought of in a while, an ability that had atrophied in the minds of people who could not remember a time without social netw… Dexter Palmer
“ I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him. Dexter Palmer
“ 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. Dexter Palmer
“ 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. Dexter Palmer
“ But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over. Dexter Palmer
“ She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she'd gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be… Dexter Palmer
“ Like most modern people, we no longer bothered to make the distinction between events in real life and the dramas of fictional worlds, and so the cliff-hanger that inevitably, reliably ended the hour… Dexter Palmer
“ This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must. Dexter Palmer
“ And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want. Dexter Palmer
“ To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can neve… Dexter Palmer
“ Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man. Dexter Palmer
“ But I can tell you this: that I am deeply proud of Rebecca. That she made a split-second decision to save the life of her son, turning the wheel of her vehicle so that her side of it would be impacted… Dexter Palmer
“ 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. Dexter Palmer
