# Quote — Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

> 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.

- Author: [Jeff Lindsay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay.md)
- Book: [Darkly Dreaming Dexter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_Lindsay_(writer)#Darkly_Dreaming_Dexter_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-lindsay/darkly-dreaming-dexter/i-think-people

## More from this book

> 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)