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Dexter Palmer quotes: The causality violation device may be doing something else. May have already done it. Something wonderful and terrible.

The causality violation device may be doing something else. May have already done it. Something wonderful and terrible.

Dexter Palmer quotes: M. and I ground against each other as if we were ill-fitting jigsaw pieces determined to jam together, even though one showed sidewalk, the other sky.

M. and I ground against each other as if we were ill-fitting jigsaw pieces determined to jam together, even though one showed sidewalk, the other sky.

Dexter Palmer quotes: It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Dexter Palmer quotes: But I'm not saying that falsifiability makes science better; I'm saying it makes science good.

But I'm not saying that falsifiability makes science better; I'm saying it makes science good.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

Dexter Palmer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

Dexter Palmer quotes: I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.

I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.

Dexter Palmer quotes: All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge.

All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge.

Dexter Palmer quotes: It is nice enough to be a child, but it is far rarer, and much more precious, to no longer be young, and to truly feel young again.

It is nice enough to be a child, but it is far rarer, and much more precious, to no longer be young, and to truly feel young again.

Dexter Palmer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Everything is as it should be; all is in its place. This is what Philip Steiner thinks.

Everything is as it should be; all is in its place. This is what Philip Steiner thinks.

Dexter Palmer quotes: He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

Dexter Palmer quotes: I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Howard!' she hollered as the machines pulled her under. 'Howard!' At least she didn't remember my name, either.

Howard!' she hollered as the machines pulled her under. 'Howard!' At least she didn't remember my name, either.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other?

Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other?

Dexter Palmer quotes: As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Dexter Palmer quotes: If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.

If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit.

Dexter Palmer quotes: And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Every page refresh promised the little dopamine kick that came from the shock of the new. Meanwhile,

Every page refresh promised the little dopamine kick that came from the shock of the new. Meanwhile,

Dexter Palmer quotes: As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

Dexter Palmer quotes: If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

Dexter Palmer quotes: It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.

It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

Dexter Palmer quotes: I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

Dexter Palmer quotes: But who, in these modern times, slept well?

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

Dexter Palmer quotes: There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.

There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.

Dexter Palmer quotes: There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.

There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.

Dexter Palmer quotes: Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.But I know I can fix this. I can do it.

Nothing is as it should be. Everything is upside down.

But I know I can fix this. I can do it.

Dexter Palmer quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Science fiction is the fantasy that science always works.

Science fiction is the fantasy that science always works.

Dexter Palmer quotes: We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

Dexter Palmer quotes: What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.

What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.