# Jeff Lindsay

- Quotes: 32
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay

## Books

- [Darkly Dreaming Dexter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter.md) — 32 quotes

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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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> 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 did not like this feeling of having feelings.

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> And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

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> The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

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> Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

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> Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

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> 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?

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> It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being.
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> Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO.
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> The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile.
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> What a scamp.

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> I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

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> Me, feeling. What a concept.

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> Killing makes me feel good.

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