Dearly Devoted Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”
“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”
“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.”
“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”
“you can’t use logic on human behavior.”
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”
“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.”
“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”
“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.”
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