Samuel Barrett

“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, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“Write down everything you remember. You’ll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all the sharp edges off your memory and makes it into a dream that it will have you believe is true.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one is precious, to be wasted as she wishes.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you have that there was ever any time is a few scribbled words and a few blurred pictures. Then those burn in fire or blow away in wind and you have nothing.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion