100 Quotes by Dexter Palmer

It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.

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 hears your plea and performs his final miracle. He lays His hand on you and then He vanishes. And what mortal man can undo that? What human on this earth has the power to change a tin man back to flesh?

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.

But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

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

You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women—literally, 'not men'—are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.

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

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

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