Dexter Quotes

Iconic quotes by Dexter Morgan.

Episode 1
"Dexter"
 * "Tonight's the night. And it's gonna happen again and again. Has to happen."
 * "Open your eyes and look at what you did! Look or I'll cut your eyelids right off your face."
 * "Trust me, I definitely understand. See, I can't help myself either. But children, I could never do that. Not like you. Never kids."
 * "My name is Dexter, Dexter Morgan. I don't know what made me the way I am. But whatever it was, left a hollow place inside."
 * "People fake a lot of human interactions but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well."
 * "Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on edge."
 * "I'm a very neat monster."
 * "I don't have feelings about anything but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb."
 * "With a solve rate for murders at about 20%, Miami is a great place for me."
 * "The only real question I have is why, in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight into the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creeps from me?"
 * "For me sex never enters into it. I don't understand sex. Not that I have anything against women and I certainly have an appropriate sensibility about men. But when it comes to the actual act of sex, it's always just seemed so undignified."
 * "She's perfect because Rita is, in her own way, just as damaged as me."
 * "Normal people are so hostile."
 * "The ritual is intoxicating ."
 * "I think this is a friendly message, hey, wanna play? And yes, I wanna play. I really really do. "

Episode 2
"Crocodile"
 * "I dream. I dream I'm floating on the surface of my own life. Watching ir all unfold. Observing it. The outsider looking in."
 * "They can laugh and play, it comes so easily for them. Even though I'm not one of them, even though sometimes I can really be a monster, today I'm just a sea monster."
 * "I see their pain. On some level I even understand their pain. I just can't feel their pain."
 * "Lately, the thing that surprises me most about Rita is how much I enjoy being with her. But whenever that happens with a woman and I feel comfortable with her, it all goes wrong."
 * "My father taught me one thing above all others, to be sure."
 * "If God is in the details, and if I believed in God, then he's in this room with me. I just wish he'd brought an extension cord."
 * "I can kill a man, dismember his body, and be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend is feeling insecure, I'm totally lost."
 * "That's a point of view to which I'm not entirely unsympathetic. Neither you nor I is in complete control of our destinies."
 * "He came back and left nothing behind but a message, come find me, and I will."
 * "There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface."

Episode 3
"Popping Cherry"
 * "I like to pretend I'm alone. Completely alone. Maybe post-apocalypse or plague... Whatever. No-one left to act normal for. No need to hide who I really am. It would be...freeing."
 * "Most people have a hard time dealing with death, but I'm not most people. It's the grief that makes me uncomfortable. Not because I'm a killer, really, I just don't understand all that emotion which makes it tough to fake. In those cases shades come in handy."
 * "Florida prisons kick free 25,000 inmates a year. They don't do that for me, but it sure feels like it."
 * "My instincts are impeccable but I have to be sure of my prey."
 * "I am lucky. What do I know about abuse? Without the Code of Harry I'm sure I would've committed a senseless murder in my youth. Just to watch the blood flow."
 * "All I had to do was drive home, have a taco, plan my attack. Instead I tried to act human, like it's my job to save lives."
 * "Jeremy didn't murder that boy four years ago. He was taking out the garbage. Just like I do."
 * "The nurse was my first playmate. I'll always be grateful to her for opening up so many magnificent new doors for me."
 * "Things were a little messy in the beginning. Hey, perfecting a new craft takes time. But I was trained well. Those who witnessed my early stumbles never had a chance to tell."
 * "It was messier than I anticipated but it was still a special day."
 * "Harry taught me that death isn't the end. It's the beginning of a chain reaction that will catch you if you're not careful."
 * "He taught me that none of us are who we appear to be on the outside... but we must maintain appearances to survive. But there was something Harry didn't teach me,  something he didn't know, couldn't possibly know. The willful taking of life represents the ultimate disconnect from humanity. It leaves you an outsider, forever looking in, searching for company to keep."

Episode 4
"Let's Give the Boy a Hand"
 * "I find people around me are all making some kind of connection, like friendship, romance, but human bonds always lead to messy complications -- commitment, sharing, driving people to the airport. Besides, if I let someone get that close, they'd see who I really am... and I can't let that happen. So time to put on my mask."
 * "I could make things so much easier for Rita... but that would be wrong."
 * "I love Halloween -- the one time everyone wears a mask... not just me. People think it's fun pretending you're a monster. Me, I spend my life pretending I'm not. Brother, friend, boyfriend -- all part of my costume collection. Some people might call me a fraud. I prefer to think of myself as a master of disguise."
 * "Harry was the only one who saw me -- really saw me -- so he taught me to hide. And that's what's kept me safe. But sometimes, I'm not sure where Harry's vision of me ends and the real me starts. I'm just a collection of learned behaviors -- bits and pieces of Harry -- maybe my new friend is right. Maybe I am a fraud."
 * "I've come to appreciate the comfortable moments with Rita. The easy, quiet moments."
 * "He's telling me where to go. Am I going because that's what he wants, or because that's what Harry would want? What do I want?"
 * "My new friend doesn't see me as clearly as he thinks. I can't kill this man. Harry wouldn't want it. And neither would I."
 * "Everyone hides who they are at least some of the time. Sometimes you bury that part of yourself so deeply you have to be reminded that it's there at all. And sometimes you just want to forget who you are all together. And what about me? Maybe I'll never be the human Harry wanted me to be. But I couldn't kill Tony Tucci. That's not me either. My new friend thought I wouldn't be able to resist the kill he left for me. But I did. I'm not the monster he wants me to be. So I'm neither man nor beast. I'm something new entirely. With my own set of rules. I'm Dexter."

Episode 5
"Love American Style"
 * "I wonder what I did to make him think we're so close. I wonder if it'd work on Rita."
 * "That must be what love looks like. The inability to feel has it's advantages. Sometimes." (Watching Rita's coworker identify her lover's body)
 * "If he's a killer, then there's proof. There's always proof. And I'll find it."
 * "My favorite serial killer is a lozenge eater. How human of him."

Episode 6
"Return to Sender"
 * "My neat little world of lies is crumbling around me and I can't tell a soul. Especially not Deb."
 * "Rita will be devastated if I'm arrested. Her husband is a crack head and her boyfriend is a serial killer, hard not to take that personally."
 * "I don't have bad dreams. When I sleep everything sleeps. Nothing goes bump in Dexter's night."
 * "I've never felt a moment of remorse, doubt, regret. What's happening to me?'

Episode 7
"Circle of Friends"


 * "I'm empty. But I found a way to make it feel less bottomless. Pretend. You pretend the feelings are there for the world. For the people around you."
 * "I'm going to miss my playmate. Sure, there's Rita and the kids, but they don't know the real me. They can never know the real me."
 * "I always prided myself on being an outsider, but now... I feel the need to connect with someone."
 * "Ever since Harry's death, I've been alone... but now, for the first time... I feel alone."

Episode 8
"Shrink Wrap"
 * "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone before. I'm a serial killer. Oh, god. That feels so amazing to say out loud."
 * " I must confess I'm a little conflicted. You helped me make a huge self discovery. The fact that I'm a killer- that's something I can't control. You helped me to accept who I really am. I'm grateful for that."
 * "I was raised with a certain set of principles. I'm sorry doc, actions have consequences. And this is yours."

Episode 9
"Father Knows Best"
 * "I know the truth, because Harry always told me the truth. He had to. He was teaching me principles, a code. He knew what I would become without it."
 * "I had a father. Someone other than Harry who called me son. The thought never even occurred to me. Harry was all I needed. It was Harry who always had the answers. He knew who was good, bad, safe, dangerous. I built my life on Harry's Code. I live by it. But Harry lied. Why would he do that? What else don't I know? My concrete foundation is turning to shifting sand."

Episode 10
"Seeing Red"
 * "My sister's right, I don't share my problems with her. Or with anybody. Harry taught me that. Secrecy. Self reliance. And a well stocked cupboard of hefty bags."
 * "Fortunately I've never met a problem I can't manage. Until that boy in the blood."
 * "Harry's first rule, don't get emotionally involved. I think this is why."
 * "Someone once said it's easier dealing with other people's problems than your own. They were wrong."
 * "So this is doom. I've been the architect of so much of it's only fair I should know what the fuss is all about."

Episode 11
"Truth Be Told"
 * "I've never had much use for the concept of Hell, but if Hell exists, I'm in it."
 * " It climbed inside me that day, and it's been with me ever since. My dark passenger. "
 * "My mother was murdered in front of my eyes. It's no wonder I'd grow up trying to find meaning in blood."

Episode 12
"Born Free"
 * "I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see."
 * "I don't like this place. Something nameless was born here. Something that lives in the deepest darkest hole of the thing they call Dexter."
 * "What did I just do? I drove away a brother who accepts me, sees me, for an adoptive sister who'd reject me if she knew, and a foster father who betrayed me."
 * " The most important single fact about me, I'm not alone. And Harry kept it from me. What do I owe him after that?"
 * "You're not a trophy, but you need to be put down."
 * "You should know this isn't easy for me. You've done more to deserve my knife than anyone. You're the only one I ever wanted to set free."
 * "The reality is, there's nobody left alive that can handle my truth."
 * "Doakes always sensed something was wrong with me, but now he knows. His devil danced with my demon and the fiddler's tune is far from over."

Episode 1
"It's Alive!"

Episode 2
"Waiting to Exhale"

Episode 3
"An Inconvenient Lie"

Episode 4
"See-Through"

Episode 5
"The Dark Defender"

Episode 6
"Dex, Lies, and Videotape"

Episode 7
"That Night, a Forest Grew"

Episode 8
"Morning Comes'

Episode 9
"Resistance Is Futile"

Episode 10
"There's Something About Harry"

Episode 11
"Left Turn Ahead"

Episode 12
"The British Invasion"

Episode 1
"Our Father"

Episode 2
"Finding Freebo"

Episode 3
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Episode 4
"All in the Family"


 * "Most actors toil in obscurity, never stepping into the spotlight. But if you hone your craft, work diligently, you might just find yourself cast in the role of a lifetime."

Episode 5
"Turning Biminese"

Episode 6
"Sì Se Puede"

Episode 7
"Easy as Pie"

Episode 8
"The Damage a Man Can Do"

Episode 9
"About Last Night"

Episode 10
"Go Your Own Way"

Episode 11
"I Had a Dream"

Episode 12
"Do You Take Dexter Morgan?"

Episode 1
"Living the Dream"

Episode 2
"Remains to Be Seen"

Episode 3
"Blinded by the Light"

Episode 4
"Dex Takes a Holiday"

Episode 5
"Dirty Harry"

Episode 6
"If I Had a Hammer"

Episode 7
"Slack Tide"

Episode 8
"Road Kill"

Episode 9
"Hungry Man"

Episode 10
"Lost Boys"

Episode 11
"Hello, Dexter Morgan"

Episode 12
"The Getaway"
 * "So what's the alternative? Leave? Disappear? Fake my own death and start over again?"

Episode 1
"My Bad"

Episode 2
"Hello, Bandit"

Episode 3
"Practically Perfect"

Episode 4
"Beauty and the Beast"

Episode 5
"First Blood"

Episode 6
"Everything is Illumenated"

Episode 7
"Circle Us"

Episode 8
"Take It!"

Episode 9
"Teenage Wasteland"

Episode 10
"In the Beginning"

Episode 11
"Hop a Freighter"

Episode 12
"The Big One"

Episode 1
"Those Kinds of Things"

Episode 2
"Once Upon a Time"

Episode 3
"Smokey and the Bandit"

Episode 4
"A Horse of a Different Color"

Episode 5
"The Angel of Death"

Episode 6
"Just Let Go"

Episode 7
"Nebraska"

Episode 8
"Sin of Omission"

Episode 9
"Get Gellar"

Episode 10
"Ricochet Rabbit"

Episode 11
"Talk to the Hand"

Episode 12
"This is the Way the World Ends"

Episode 1
"Are You...?"

Episode 2
"Sunshine and Frosty Swirl"

Episode 3
"Buck the System"

Episode 4
"Run"

Episode 5
"Swim Deep"

Episode 6
"Do the Wrong Thing"

Episode 7
"Chemistry"

Episode 8
"Argentina"

Episode 9
"Helter Skelter"

Episode 10
"The Dark... Whatever"

Episode 11
"Do You See What I See?"


 * "All you can ever believe in is now -- this moment -- because, in a blink, everything can change."

Episode 12
"Surprise, Motherfucker!"

Episode 1
"A Beautiful Day"

Episode 2
"Every Silver Lining..."

Episode 3
"What's Eating Dexter Morgan?"

Episode 4
"Scar Tissue"

Episode 5
"This Little Piggy"

Episode 6
"A Little Reflection"

Episode 7
"Dress Code"

Episode 8
"Are We There Yet?"

Episode 9
"Make Your Own Kind of Music"

Episode 10
"Goodbye Miami"

Episode 11
"Monkey in a Box"

Episode 12
"Remember the Monsters?"

Episode 1
"Cold Snap"

Episode 2
"Storm of Fuck"

Episode 3
"Smoke Signals"

Episode 4
"H is for Hero"

Episode 5
"Runaway"

Episode 6
"Too Many Tuna Sandwiches"

Episode 7
"Skin of Her Teeth"

Episode 8
"Unfair Game"

Episode 9
"The Family Business"


 * "It's a scary world out there. Guilty people slip through the cracks of the justice system every day. Murderers. Rapists. Predators. Monsters who walk among us, and we never even know. Counting on the justice system to discover these predators and effectively deal with them is not an option. Not for me. I don't follow society's rules. But that doesn't mean there aren't rules I have to follow when the Dark Passenger calls."
 * "They always say some sh¡t like that."
 * "You know, when Matt was on my table, he blamed you for everything. Just like you blame your dad. Like father, like son."

Episode 10
"Sins of the Father"


 * "There was no other way."