Jeff Lindsay Quotations

Stop the nurse like the monkey.

The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential.

You're driving me NORMAL!

...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

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

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

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

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

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

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