Dexter Is Delicious Quotes

“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training devices for recreational slaughter. No wonder our world was such a mean and violent place...if we teach children that killing is fun, can we really be surprised if now and then someone is smart enough to learn?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“Could this be the Apocalypse ?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would ever make it past thirteen years old.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“He was blond, about six feet tall, muscular, and absurdly good-looking in a rugged, masculine way, as if God had taken Brad Pitt and decided to make him really handsome.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“It is a well-worn truth that cops grow callous, a cliché so tattered that it is even common on television. All cops face things every day that are so gruesome, brutal, and bizarre that no normal human being could deal with them on a daily basis and stay sane. And so they learn not to feel, to grow and maintain a poker-faced whimsy toward all the surprising things their fellow humans find to do to each other. All cops practice not-feeling, and it may be that Miami cops are better at it than others, since they have so many opportunities to learn.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“Dexter,' Debs said, jerking her head at me. 'Get some smelling salts or something. You and Deke help her up.'
(...) Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch. 'Hey, you got some of that smelling stuff?' he said.
Apparently it had become universally accepted that Dexter was the Eternal Keeper of the Smelling Salts.
I had no idea where that baffling canard had come from, but in truth, I was completely without.
Luckily, Mrs Aldovar apparently was not interested in sniffing anything.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“Chapin was secured in the backseat—the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason—and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“This is not recreational homicide. This is protecting Lily Anne, and even after these very first moments of life, I will quite happily rip the veins out of anything that comes near her.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“…I must now think that whatever threatens Dexter might also be a danger to Lily Anne - and this is not a thing that I can allow.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“So I stared, and Samantha looked back at me, and there we were: a perfectly normal married man with three kids and a promising career who just happened to enjoy killing people, staring at a perfectly normal eighteen-year-old girl who went to a good school and liked Twilight and who wanted to be eaten, sitting next to each other in a walk-in refrigerator at a vampire club in South Beach.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“And when I added it all up, I realized what I had: a very strong possible maybe something or not, which might or might not be an actual threat or not. Or something.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“Astor said, “Ooooooooohhh,” in a very loud and high voice, and Cody jumped up to play. It was clear to me that it wouldn’t matter what I did—they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle—they were insensible, like kittens, predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance. And then they grew up—into what? Into murderous dead-eyed pretenders like Brian and me, ready at the drop of a hat to stab each other in the back,”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“My sister is an excellent shot with a pistol, and no doubt has many other sterling character traits, but putting her in front of a computer is like asking a donkey to do the polka, and she very wisely left all her Googling to me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“It could well be that somewhere in Miami really knowledgeable people—druids, perhaps—were nodding their heads and murmuring, “Ahhh, Jupiter is in a retrograde moon of Saturn,” and pouring another cup of herb tea while they lounged around in Birkenstocks. Or”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“The idea of a large number of vampires in Miami, whether actual or fake, was a little bit alarming—even if only for aesthetic reasons. I”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“Salvia divinorum,”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“any child could have told me that when you are enjoying yourself within sight of a grown-up it is only a matter of time before the fun ends. And”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“when I added it all up, I realized what I had: a very strong possible maybe something or not, which might or might not be an actual threat or not. Or”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“In truth, I was quite happy to see her go, as I had found her performance very hard to watch. Aside from the fact that I did not actually enjoy watching other people inflict pain and suffering on the innocent, I knew full well that it was at least partially intended for my benefit. I did not want to be next, and I did not want to be food—which I would be, apparently, if Chutsky didn’t get here soon. I was sure he was out there in the dark, circling around to come at us at an unexpected angle, trying to find some way to improve his odds, performing some strange and deadly maneuver known only to hardened warriors, before he burst upon us with gun blazing. Still, I really wished he would hurry up. Alana”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“Why do you keep calling me that?” I said. It sounded more petulant than it should have, but I really didn’t have a terribly strong position at the moment, unless you count the moral high ground. My”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“Turn it in two minutes,” Alana said to Bobby, and then she came back to me. “Well, piglet,” she said to me, and she reached over and pinched my cheek; not as a doting grandmother might, but more like a shrewd shopper checking the cutlets. I tried to pull away, but it wasn’t quite as easy as it sounds, with a very large man pushing a shotgun into my back.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious

“And so, overcome by remorse and the beauty of all that, I should let her go,” Alana purred. “Family and church and puppies and flowers—how lovely your world must be, Sergeant. But it’s somewhat darker than that for the rest of us.” She looked at Samantha. “Of course, it does have its moments.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter is Delicious