“ Soft hearts provide poor harbor; tin hearts can better stand against time and bad weather, thin and hollow as they are. So you pray to change from flesh to metal, and the dying Author of the world hea… Dexter Palmer
“ He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting. Dexter Palmer
“ We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once. Dexter Palmer
“ For instance, the cards that I wrote for the company's 'I'd Like to Declare My Confused and Ambiguous Fondness for You' line were all notorious failures, some of which were blamed as the single direct… Dexter Palmer
“ For with each bite he tasted not just the irresistible sweetness of the dessert, but the deliciously agonizing negative flavor of all the imagined foodstuffs that he could have bought with that nickel… Dexter Palmer
“ Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to… Dexter Palmer
“ 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
“ 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. Dexter Palmer
“ Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience. Dexter Palmer
