#dexter

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dark-humor #dexter #smart #witty #humor

But of course, very few people are Dexter. This is generally a good thing, but in this case it came in handy to be me. Four months after reading a story in the paper about a missing boy, I read a similar story. The boys were around the same age; details like that always ring a small bell and send a Mister Rogers whisper trickling through my brain: “Hello, neighbor. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#age

I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#random #dreams

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#humor #dreams

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #insanity #dreams

She looked up and ran her eyes over me, slowly, while I stood and wondered why. Had she forgotten what I looked like? But she finished with a big smile. She really did like me, the idiot. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . . ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

The more I heard it in my thoughts, the more sense it made. And beyond sense, it became a kind of seductive mantra. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dreams

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 #inspirational #inspirational