Jeff Lindsay

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

— Jeff Lindsay

I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan

— Jeff Lindsay

Me, feeling. What a concept.

— Jeff Lindsay

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

— Jeff Lindsay

“Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.”

— Jeff Lindsay

She really did like me, the idiot.

— Jeff Lindsay

“Of course I had. That's how I do it.”

— Jeff Lindsay

“... Dexter the sofa spud ...”

— Jeff Lindsay

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...

— Jeff Lindsay

“unknown to everyone but Deborah, I was a twisted homicidal sicko myself.”

— Jeff Lindsay

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

— Jeff Lindsay

“If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry.”

— Jeff Lindsay

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

— Jeff Lindsay

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

— Jeff Lindsay

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

— Jeff Lindsay

“We were watching a sitcom, I don't remember which. There were many of them at the time that all could be lumped…

— Jeff Lindsay

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my…

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“If somebody had shouted at me, "Look out behind you! He's got a gun!" I would have replied with no more than…

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Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of…

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“If I ever have to see something like that again," he told us, "I will retire and raise dachshunds.”

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“Everyone is so cheerful and happy,” I said “This isn’t Mister Rogers Neighborhood, Dex. It’s Miami. Only the bad guys are happy.”…

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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a…

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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…

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“Of course, for some bizarre reason, we don't have a National Registry of Who Your Friends Are. One would assume that this…

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...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for…

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“This was Miami, after all. People come home every day to find their TVs gone, their jewelry and electronics all taken away;…

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“...the only light in this tiny-mooned night comes from the windows of the apartment building, a matching purple halo from each window,…

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I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after…

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“Dexter,' Debs said, jerking her head at me. 'Get some smelling salts or something. You and Deke help her up.' (...) Deke…

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“Have you ever noticed that every now and then you'll overhear an amazingly clear declarative sentence when you're out in public, spoken…

— Jeff Lindsay

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the…

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“It was indeed a long wait, well over two hours. I sat in the car and listened to the radio and tried…

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The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I…

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“In truth, I would have said anything to make LaGuerta take me to the rink. I wanted to go to the arena…

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“On the other hand, if what you really want to get out of the trip is a nice, slow, meandering crawl through…

— Jeff Lindsay

“the little toy piped on and into “London Bridge” in the same cheerfully lunatic tone. It was enough to make anyone crazy,…

— Jeff Lindsay