...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.