Jeff Lindsay Quotes - Page 3

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• A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

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  Men, Phony, Like Me

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.106, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Stupid, Perfect, Long

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.4, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

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  Beautiful, Rip, Heart

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.200, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

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  Night, People, Broken

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 5, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Years, Observation

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

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• A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

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  Philosophical, Men, Fire

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.75, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Stop the nurse like the monkey.

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  Nurse, Monkeys

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.128, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Night, Dolls, Lasts

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.189, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

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  Dark, Alive, Driving

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.18, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

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  Expectations, Too Much, Stood Up

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.186, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Mean, Dislike Me, Kind

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training devices for recreational slaughter. No wonder our world was such a mean and violent place...if we teach children that killing is fun, can we really be surprised if now and then someone is smart enough to learn?

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  Children, Fun, Smart

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• First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

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  Comfort, Firsts, Cliche

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.156, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Mean, Firsts, Breakfast

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.128, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• And I was having too much fun to stop now.

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  Fun, Too Much, Too Much Fun

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• 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.

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  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Heart, Pushing It, Tongue

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .

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  Nice, Believe, Men

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.32, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

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  Cute, Halloween, Circles

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.170, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

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  Sarcasm, Comforting, May

  Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.79, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You're driving me NORMAL!

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  Normal, Driving

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Distance, Stupid

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.121, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential.

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  Teacher, Smart, School

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.67, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

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  Monsters, Logical, Inhuman

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.51, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Feeling - what authentic human fun!

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  Fun, Feelings, Humans

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.180, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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