Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

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

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

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.

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

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.