The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

Jeff Lindsay

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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.

might way moving

...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

common-sense waiting doors

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.

stood-up too-much expectations

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

teach logic hands

you can’t use logic on human behavior. by Jeff Lindsay

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

logic behavior use

IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might 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 workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.

monday morning long

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

newspapers killing people

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul. That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.

moon dark heart

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

guy jobs order

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

clothes nice pride

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

fake everyday people

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.

fickle appreciate ignorance

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

nice problem reason

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

skills desire people

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who lau... by Jeff Lindsay

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

logic laughing people

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

wicked courses said

A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

coffee views thinking

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. by Jeff Lindsay

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

charming vanity

Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did. by Jeff Lindsay

Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.

saying-hi courses play

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy. by Jeff Lindsay

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

synthetic genuine sympathy