‘This was modern life, then, this seamless logic, this common sense, this silent tit-for-tat. This was what people did. He did not like it. He hated it. But he was in its moral universe now, and he could never go back.’
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I’m invest enough to give it a re-read once I’m finished.
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"He's always looking for new blood. Something new. A little thrill for that amusement park he calls his mind."
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"Dexter wanted to live gloriously..."

"...Dexter was mad about the past. He believed in it, it sustained him, he used to knit meaning into the mess of everything....Elizabeth disliked the past."

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