Jeff Lindsay Quotes

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“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.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“And here I always thought morality was useless”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Me, feeling. What a concept.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.”

“you can’t use logic on human behavior.”

Source: Dexter Is Delicious

“I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

Source: Dexter By Design

“As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.”

“Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?”

Source: Dexter Is Delicious

“… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter”

Source: Dexter Is Delicious

“That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

Source: Dexter By Design

“There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter”

“In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay

“… she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.”

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

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”

“It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.”

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.”

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait… No matter what… pressure… you might feel.”

Source: Dexter Is Delicious