Eric Secrist

“In the cramped environment of little houses, with the car parked under the kitchen window, clothes hanging in the yard, countless skimpy errands keeping her involved until nothing else is left, only a preoccupation with things to get done, things to have ready”
― Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint

“Inside us there is a place that is our true self.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“It meant that you were seeing into absolute reality. The essence beyond the mere appearance." In your terminology, he thought, what you saw is called - stigmata.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind