Popular Quotes
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Dexter: [voiceover about the doll parts in his freeze] I suppose I should be upset, even feel violated, but I'm not. No, in fact, I think this is a friendly message, like "Hey, wanna play?" and yes I want to play. I really really do.
Dexter: The only real question I have is why in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight to the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creep from me.
Laguerta: So then he must have already had the head with him in the front seat. Huh, that's weird. Why would he keep it there?
Dexter: I don't know. So he could use a carpool lane
Dexter: Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on edge, other times it helps me control the chaos.
Dexter: I don't blame my foster parents for that. Harry and Doris Morgan did a wonderful job raising me. But, they're both dead now. I didn't kill them. Honest.
Sgt. Doakes: You give me the fucking creeps, you know that Dexter?
Dexter: Yeah, I know, sorry about that.
Harry: Okay, so we can't stop this. But maybe... we can do something... to channel it. Use it for good.
Teenage Dexter: How could it ever be good?
Harry: Son, there are people out there who do really bad things. Terrible people. And the police can't catch them all. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Teenage Dexter: You're saying... they deserve it.
Records Supervisor: You have a morbid sense of fun.
Dexter: That's probably true...
Dexter: No blood. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood; no blood at all. Why hadn't I thought of that? No blood. What a beautiful idea!
Dexter: Needless to say I have some unusual habits, yet all these socially acceptable people can't wait to pick up hammers and smash their food to bits. Normal people are so hostile.
Dexter: [as killer adverts his eyes from dead bodie] Look! Or I will cut your eyelids right off your face.
Dexter: Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; he taught me how to cover my tracks. I'm a very neat monster.
Dexter: People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well, that's my burden, I guess.
Dexter: There's something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami. It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you're in a new and daring section of Disney World: Dahmerland!
Harry: [talking to young Dexter] Remember this forever, you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.
Mike Donovan: [about killing the boys] I couldn't help myself. I couldn't. Please, you have to understand
Dexter: Trust me, I definitely understand. See I can't help myself either. But children I could never do that. Not like you. Never, ever kids.
Mike Donovan: Why?
Dexter: I have standards.
Dexter: She's the only person in the world who loves me. I think that's nice. I don't have feeling about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb.
Mike Donovan: Hail Mary, full of grace, the lord
Dexter: [Slaps him] Stop, that never helped anybody.
Dexter: [narrating] With the solve rate for murders at about twenty percent, Miami is a great place for me. A great place for me to hone my craft. Viva Miami.
Dexter: Rita's ex-hubby, the crack addict, repeatedly raped her, knocked her around. Ever since then she's been completely uninterested in sex. That works for me!
Rita: What am I gonna do?
Dexter: Don't worry, I'll figure it out.
[voice over] Dexter: And I will. I can always see other people's problems more clearly than my own.
Dexter: [voice over] I always prided myself on being an outsider... but now... I feel the need to connect with someone.
Officer Oliver: [Dexter, at a bloody crimes scene, has just explained that they should be looking for someone who is really good with a knife] So, we are looking for a sushi chef?
Dexter: [Deadpan] Yeah... Sushi chef is possible. It wouldn't be my first choice but hey... You never know.
Officer Oliver: Now what?
Dexter: [Excited and pumps his fist] Now I eat!
Dexter: Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again, and again. It has to happen. Nice night.
Dexter: I chose Rita because she is, in her own way, as damaged as me.
Sgt. Doakes: Fuck you!
Dexter: Okay. Uh, is there something I can...
Sgt. Doakes: Yeah, you can get me your fucking analysis on the blood spatter on these killings! You think I'm here to invite you to my nephew's briss?
Dexter: [sarcastic] I didn't know you were Jewish!
Sgt. Doakes: Shut the fuck up and write your report already!
Dexter: [about Lila] Can't live with her, can't kill her!
