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Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay, the first in his series about serial killer Dexter Morgan. It formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter and won the 2005 Dilys Award and the 2007 Book to TV award.

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

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“I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan”

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“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”

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

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

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

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“Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?”

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

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“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?”

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