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Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2) QUOTES

Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2) QUOTES

1 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

2 " There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

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

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

4 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

5 " Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

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

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

7 " It really is better to be lucky than to be good. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

8 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

9 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

10 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

11 " Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

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

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

13 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

14 " You're driving me NORMAL! "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

15 " It's terrible to have to depend on someone else. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

16 " What a terrible thing life can be. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

17 " Still a monster, of course, but I cleaned up nicely afterwards, and I was OUR monster, dressed in red, white, and blue 100 percent synthetic virtue. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

18 " I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces. "

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

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

― Jeff Lindsay , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)

20 " 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 , Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)