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

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

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

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

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

I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

Stop the nurse like the monkey.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.

This is going to be awesome, Jackie gurgled. Deborah did not appear to agree.

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

If you believe that God makes miracles you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.

Another huge new development was going up to improve life for all of us by turning trees and animals into cement and old people from New Jersey.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

Hello there, officer, just out for a walk. Lovely evening for a dismemberment, isn't it?

Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

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

Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am.

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

I enjoy my work; sorry if that bothers you.

Dex," she said. "Are you all right?"
"I'll be fine, Sis," I said, feeling somewhat light-headed, "if you'll just turn off that horrible music.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

This whole business of telling the truth just never seems to work without some kind of awkward unpleasantness.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

How bad could things be if my hair was neat?

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

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

I had done it all right, all the same, all the way it had to be done. It would be right.
Now.

Rather than see me or have me touch it again, it died.

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

If everyone else in the world were to mysteriously disappear, I would feel irritated about it only because there would be no one to make me doughnuts.

Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Dexter, she said with an expression of soporific surprise on her face.

I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares - generally speaking, nobody even notices.

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

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

All is well," I said as soothingly as possible. "The Maginot Line is secured, the truce is agreed, and I have her promise not to invade Poland.

I found Deborah waiting for me, slumped into my chair and looking like the poster girl for the National Brooding Outrage Foundation.

Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

What do you want a clock for?" "To find out what time it is," I said. "I think that's the usual purpose.

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.

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

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait ... No matter what ... pressure ... you might feel.

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

'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.

I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.

I was like a little boy playing war, yelling, Bang, bang! Gotcha!, and looking up to see a real Sherman tank rolling right at me. It

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

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

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

Been there done that, bought the t-shirt
Chapter 2

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?

It's not that I have anything to hide - I've already hidden all of it - but

I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.

Still a monster, of course, but I cleaned up nicely afterwards, and I was OUR monster, dressed in red, white, and blue 100 percent synthetic virtue.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

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

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

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.

It was beautiful - in a terrible sort of way, of course. But still, the arrangement was perfect, compelling, beautifully bloodless.

Council of Nicea had

Anytime somebody is absolutely certain about something, they are almost always absolutely wrong

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Potter, coincidence got my vote.

I started my car and put Chase out of my mind as I nosed out into the merry brutality of Friday-night traffic in Miami.

Deborah's little house was lavishly decorated in I-have-no-life modern.

But the rules are made by people who couldn't win without 'em.

I came, I saw, I blew chunks.

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 shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

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

Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.

Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love.

She really did like me, the idiot.

I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

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

Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

Being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

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

The police did not like to come to neighborhoods like this one, where the best they could hope for was hostile indifference.

We don't get to pick our kin. The best we can hope for is to survive them ...

Killing makes me feel good.

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.