Dexter in the Dark Quotes

“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

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”
― 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

“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

“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“The mission sat in a converted store front on the corner of a medium-busy street. There was a small crowd gathered in front - no real surprise, since they gave out food and clothing, all all you had to do was spend a few moments of your life listening to the good reverend explain why you were going to Hell. It seemed like a pretty good bargain, even to me, but I wasn't hungry.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“But as I have noticed on more than one occasion, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch.” “Or milk,” Deborah said. “Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“What a frail thing a human being is—and without the Passenger, that is all I was, a poor imitation of a human being. Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“When I was very young I once saw a variety act on TV. A man put a bunch of plates on the end of a series of supple rods, and kept them up in the air by whipping the rods around to spin the plates. And if he slowed down or turned his back, even for a moment, one of the plates would wobble and then crash to the ground, followed by all the others in series.

That's a terrific metaphor for life, isn't it? We're all trying to keep our plates spinning in the air, and once you get them up there you can't take your eyes off them and you have to keep chugging along without the rest. Except that in life, somebody keeps adding more plates, hiding the rods, and changing the law of gravity when you're not looking. And so every time you think you have all your plates spinning nicely, suddenly you hear a hideous clattering crash behind you and a whole row of plates you didn't even know you had begins to hit the ground”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“A bag of meat that breathes, and when that stops, nothing but rotting garbage.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Who was I if I was no longer me?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Dexter siempre aplaude el espíritu caritativo, por supuesto. Pero en general, soy tan partidario de él porque casi siempre constituye una señal de advertencia de que algo inicuo, perverso e inquietante está sucediendo detrás de la máscara de la Madre Teresa.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“The children are no longer your concern,” he said. “They belong to Moloch now. Moloch likes the taste of children.” “Where are they?” I said. He waved his hand dismissively. “They’re right here on Toro Key, but you’re too late to stop the ritual.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Rita bent her face down toward the floor and shuffled over to the coffeemaker and poured herself a cup. Then she sat across the table from me and took a sip. “Dexter,” she said, “it’s perfectly normal to have reservations.” “Of course,” I said, with absolutely no idea what she meant, “otherwise you don’t get a table.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Demonic Possession: Fact or Fancy? it said, and as I read the title I distinctly heard the far-off sound of a nickel dropping. It would be very easy for an outside observer to shake his head and say, Yes, obviously, Dexter is a dull boy if he has never thought of that. But the truth is, I had not. Demon has so many negative connotations, doesn’t it? And as long as the Presence was present, there seemed no need to define it in those arcane terms. It was only now that it was gone that I required some explanation. And why not this one? It was a bit old-fashioned, but its very hoariness seemed to argue that there might be something to it, some connection that went back to the nonsense with Solomon and Moloch and all the way up to what was happening to me today.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“By the time I got back to my office it was past time for lunch, and there was a call waiting from Rita to remind me that I had a 2:30 appointment with her minister. And by “minister” I don’t mean the kind with a position in the cabinet of a foreign government. As unlikely as it seems, I mean the kind of minister you will find in a church, if you are ever compelled to visit one for some reason.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Steady, Dexter, I thought. This is just a small, painful reminder of who you are and where you came from, brought on by stress. It has nothing to do with operatic cattle.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Well, then, I think we can look forward to a very good harvest this year,” I said, but neither one of them appeared to think that was worth even a tiny smile. Ah well, you do what you can to bring a little cheer into this dreary world, and if people refuse to respond to your efforts it’s their loss.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“I read on. Aramaic, like Hebrew, did not use vowels. Instead, you had to supply them yourself.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“But hold on: Didn’t I remember that the original language of the Bible was not Hebrew but something else? I beat my gray cells brutally, and they finally came out with it. Yes, it had been something I remembered from that unimpeachable scholarly source, Raiders of the Lost Ark. And the language I was looking for was Aramaic.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“I felt like a ventriloquist’s dummy, suddenly called upon to perform the whole act alone.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Earth to Dexter,” Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Have you ever been to this museum?” “No,” she said, drawing the word out into three contemptuous syllables as only a ten-year-old girl can.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark