Jeff Lindsay Quotes

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• 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.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Talking, Ideas

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.120, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Stupid, People, Mind

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.25, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Blood, Bigs, Tricks

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• Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dirty, Use, Language

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Care, I Care, Dear

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.43, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Jobs, Order, Guy

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.46, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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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?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Children, Crazy, Sleep

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.182, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Monday, Morning, Long

  "Dexter In The Dark".

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• It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Dark, Moon

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.1, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• ...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.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Doors, Common Sense, Waiting

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.119, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Feelings

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Killing makes me feel good.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Feel Good, Killing, Feels

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.15, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ignorance, Appreciate, Fickle

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.209, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Soul, Unexpected, Guilty

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nice, Pride, Clothes

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.79, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  People, Killing, Newspapers

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.131, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Emotion, Enough, Feels

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.159, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Interesting, Obligation

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.138, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• …a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Challenges, Black

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.285, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

  Jeff Lindsay

  Book, Instruction, Situation

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.69, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Jobs, Winning, People

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.27, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  People, Fake, Everyday

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• What a terrible thing life can be.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Terrible, Terrible Things

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.79, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Moving, Might, Way

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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Afternoon, Chance, Showers

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 17, 2004.

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