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121 " If you can screw up the case in the first few vital hours, it saves time and paperwork later. "
― Jeff Lindsay , Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
122 " I smiled at her, my most comforting, challenging, I'm-not-really-a-shark smile. "
123 " Other people are less important to me than lawn furniture. "
124 " And of course you don’t actually have to take an IQ test to become a reporter. "
125 " 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 the neighbor's children? "
126 " I knew I was supposed to understand that Rita was actually saying something very specific, that her pauses and stutters added up to a great and marvelous thing that a human male would intuitively grasp. But I had not a single clue as to what it might be, nor how to figure it out. Should I count the breaths? Time the pauses and convert the numbers to Bible verses to arrive at the secret code? What was she trying to tell me? And why, for that matter, was she trying to tell me anything at all? "
127 " And why did I actually give a single hummingbird’s fart what it meant? "
128 " I was a near perfect hologram. "
129 " Just one more small sign that Poor Old Dexter was drifting off into Deep Water. Making that last painless transition from sociopath to psychopath. "
130 " Nasty habit, hurling half-digested food around like that. So unsanitary. And this was a guardian of public safety, too. "
131 " But children?” I said. “I could never do this to children. "
132 " I am a very neat monster. "
133 " Children. I should have killed him twice. 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 all of it. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there. But I like kids. I could never have them, since the idea of sex is no idea at all. Imagine doing those things— How can you? Where’s your sense of dignity? But kids—kids are special. Father Donovan deserved to die. The Code of Harry was satisfied, along with the Dark Passenger. "
134 " Oddly enough, I had found somebody. What, what? Deeply dead Dexter dating débutante doxies? Sex among the Undead? Has my need to imitate life gone all the way to faking orgasms? "
135 " It makes the most grotesque killings look antiseptic, staged. Like you’re in a new and daring section of Disney World. Dahmer Land. Come ride the refrigerator. "
136 " 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, but this didn’t seem like a good time to bring that up. "
137 " I'll die a meter maid, Dexter. "
138 " It was beautiful—in a terrible sort of way, of course. But still, the arrangement was perfect, compelling, beautifully bloodless. "
139 " looked some more. Beside the ship, cargo cranes reared up into the night sky like abandoned props from Star Wars. A "
140 " Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even—especially—me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love. "