""Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.""
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)

"Feeling - what authentic human fun!"
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)

"I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)

"In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)

"Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)

"I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed."
— Umberto Eco

"I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me."
— Isabel Wolff (A Vintage Affair)

""What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.""
— Isabel Wolff (A Vintage Affair)