Quotes from book

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?”

“Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.”

“… 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 think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.”

“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.”

“Me, feeling. What a concept.”

“Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.”

“And here I always thought morality was useless”

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

“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.”

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