# Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Author: [Jeff Lindsay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay.md) - Quotes: 32 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter ## Quotes > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/for-the-first.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/but-what-could.md) > I did not like this feeling of having feelings. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-did-not.md) > And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/and-what-did.md) > The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/the-mind-picks.md) > Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/was-insanity-really.md) > Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/lifes-only-obligation.md) > 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? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/werent-we-all.md) > 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. > > Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. > > The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. > > What a scamp. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/it-took-me-a-moment.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-rose-to-my-knees.md) > Me, feeling. What a concept. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/me-feeling-what.md) > Killing makes me feel good. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/killing-makes-me-feel.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/whatever-made-me-the.md) > After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/after-a-long.md) > I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-enjoyed-watching.md) > I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-think-people.md) > It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/its-like-everything.md) > I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-was-good.md) > Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/another-dream-another.md) > Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/really-now-if-you.md) > Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/perhaps-because-ill.md) > Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/anybody-can-be-charming.md) > I'm a very neat monster. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/im-a-very.md) > Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. But who the hell ARE you? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/why-do-so-many.md) > I poked at the white paper bag. There was nothing left inside. Just like me: a clean crisp outside and nothing at all on the inside. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-poked-at-the.md) > Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/another-beautiful-miami.md) > I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-had-killed.md) > Every major city has a section like this one. If a piebald dwarf with advanced leprosy wants to have sex with a kangaroo and a teenage choir, he'll find his way here and get a room. When he's done he might take the whole gang next door for a cup of Cuban coffee and a medianioche sandwich. Nobody would care, as long as he tipped. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/every-major-city.md) > And here I always thought morality was useless [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/and-here-i-always.md) > Incompetence is rewarded more often than not. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/incompetence-is-rewarded.md) > Did I say imaginary? Well yes. Human men are not like that. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/did-i-say.md) > I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-am-unlovable-i.md)