26 quotes found
“Me, feeling. What a concept.”
“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”
“How bad could things be if my hair was neat?”
“It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.”
“This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.”
“In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.”
“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”
“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 crouc...”
“The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't 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 Id had no ...”
“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”
“I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner o...”
“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...”
“Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.”
“Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?”
“I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.”
“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”
“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”
“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had ar...”
“What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?”
“Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”
