Jeff Lindsay (writer) Quotes

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The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

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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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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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Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.

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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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In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

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

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Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

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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.

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

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I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

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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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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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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?

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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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

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It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

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Being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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