Quotes from Jeff Lindsay

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

Me, feeling. What a concept.

And here I always thought morality was useless

Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.

you can't use logic on human behavior.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

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.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.

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.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent. --Dexter

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.