Quotes by Jeff Lindsay

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.

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.

Hope is for people who cant see the Truth.

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesnt work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

She had searched for just the right guy; sensitive and gentle and willing to wait. Quite a long search, of course. She was looking for some imaginary man who cared more about having someone to talk to and see movies with than he needed to have sex, because she was just Not Ready for That. Did I say imaginary? Well yes. Human men are not like that.

Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.

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.

In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul Im sure I would have felt quite guilty.

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure theyre working hard on that in Washington.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If youre no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if youre a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, its 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.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

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

I know family comes first, but shouldnt that mean after breakfast?

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesnt it?

Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more strangely, and so far I’d had no conversations with invisible buddies that I was aware of. Except in my sleep, of course-and did that really count? Weren’t we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor’s children?

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

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

At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in its own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.