“And here I always thought morality was useless”

“Vince and I had reached the point where there was nothing else we could think of to do with the taco wrapper, and since he refused to draw straws for the privilege of telling Deborah, I'd been forced to make the call to give her the news that we'd come up blank. And three minutes later, here she was, striding into our lab like avenging fury."Goddamn it," she said before she was even all the way in the room, "I need something from you!""Maybe a sedative?" Vince suggested, and for once I thought he was right on the money.”

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that?”