“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“you can’t use logic on human behavior.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“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.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It’s always me, isn’t it? I’m not really a very nice person, but for some reason it’s always me that they come to with their problems.Oh, Dexter, a savage inhuman monster has taken my boyfriend! Well damn it, I’m a savage inhuman monster, too—didn’t that entitle me to some rest?”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It's an odd term, girlfriend, particuarly for grown persons. And in practice an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one's girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“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?”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“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, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It really is better to be lucky than to be good.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“What a terrible thing life can be.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“…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, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“the faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception,”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
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“Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.”
― Jojo Moyes, quote from The Ship of Brides
“I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kreutzer Sonata
“I kept making you cry... didn't I?
- Hatori Sohma”
― Natsuki Takaya, quote from Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
“Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don’t like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and takes up with the wrong people.”
― Walker Percy, quote from The Last Gentleman
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from A Man Without a Country
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