Dreampunk Quotes

“Murdoch's gun was the only thing in my life, the only thing worth living for. It gets like that sometimes, with instruments of death.”
― Jeff Noon, Vurt

“He got one finger cut off when he was young... The cafe paid for a replacement, put some nano-plastic in there. The kid got hooked. It happens. You get some plastic in you, you just want some more...Some more of that strength. Because that's what it is. Strength. The Strength to persist.”
― Jeff Noon, Vurt

“...I pulled the feather out, jerking him away from the dream. Just like he used to do with me, when I went in alone. The play was shifting, and I knew how bad it felt, to have your dream dragged from your mouth.”
― Jeff Noon, Vurt

“This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Dark-Haired Girl

“The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game.”
― Jeff Noon, Vurt

“It was something of a stylistic experiment, pushing the time-tested vaporwave aesthetic more toward stained glass and dark wood.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“It felt as if the world had suddenly revealed itself to be a dream. She knew that she was free to do whatever she wanted, but she didn’t dare. Real or not, she had to go on living in this dream world day after day.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“They seemed to skitter past her like living creatures. Their movements were purposeful, organic, just the slightest bit unsteady. It was as if instead of rubber tires, each wheel comprised thousands of tiny insectoid limbs, all black and chitinous with cruel hooked claws for feet.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“What I’m saying is . . . remembering feels like time travel, right? Dreaming works the same way. Well, what if that’s all we have in the first place? Thoughts arranged in time. And we’re free—if we can only learn how—to change those thoughts around all we like. So no predestination. One world. One ever-changing universe. And we can change it!”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“It’s always a dream,” he insisted with a devilish grin. “As many times as we’ve ‘woken up’ into just another layer of dreaming, I’d expect you’d remember that by now.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“You tell me I’m dreaming, but all I know is I exist here. I can’t remember anything beyond that. So it’s real enough.”
― Cliff Jones Jr.

“It’s always a dream.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“I’m tired of making the same mistakes over and over just because of some subconscious fears or desires or whatever. I want to get back to my real life. I want to dream my own dreams again.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“We still have as much time as we’ve ever had. I just want to try living at full speed for a while.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck