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

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Alive, Driving

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

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• Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

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  People, Fake, Feelings

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

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  Wicked, Said, Courses

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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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• 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.

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  Stupid, Firsts, Remember

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 25, 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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• I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

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  Guilty, Enjoyable

  Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.75, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

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  Happy Life, Keys, Accomplishment

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

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  Believe, People, Special

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.109, Hachette UK

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

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  Mean, Knowing, Stories

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

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  Interesting, Human Behavior, Humans

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.56, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

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  Mean, Lunch, Missing

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.66, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

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  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.127, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

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  Beer, Doors, Perception

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.144, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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