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41 " It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is "
― Jeff Lindsay , Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
42 " She looked up and ran her eyes over me,slowly, while I stood and wondered why. Had she forgotten what I looked like? But she finished with a big smile. She really did like me, the idiot. "
43 " I waved to everybody. Some of themeven 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 . . . "
44 " The more I heard it in my thoughts, themore sense it made. And beyond sense, it became a kind of seductive mantra. "
45 " There's lots of bad guys out there. I can't catch them all. To be truthful, she couldn't catch any of them unless they hurled themselves off a building and into the front seat of her car. "
46 " It made me feel almost giddy, like a high-school girl watching the captain of the football team worked up his nerve to ask for a date. You mean me? Little old me? Oh my stars, really? Pardon me while I flutter my eyelashes. "
47 " And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister. "
48 " Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children? "
49 " I'm not sure what I am. I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got. Nothing else could love me, not even... especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else... someone. It's like the mask is slipping and things... people... who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me. "
50 " 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. "
51 " I did not like this feeling of having feelings. "
52 " Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting. "
53 " I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter "
54 " Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. "
55 " And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. "
56 " And here I always thought morality was useless "
57 " That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me. "
58 " I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter "
59 " 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. "
60 " 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 "