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Quotes from Darkly Dreaming Dexter — Jeff Lindsay

born 1952 United States

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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Did I say imaginary? Well yes. Human men are not like that.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

And here I always thought morality was useless

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you?

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

I poked at the white paper bag. There was nothing left inside. Just like me: a clean crisp outside and nothing at all on the inside.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jeff Lindsay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.