Dexter quotes
468 total quotesDexter: [voiceover] It won't be long now. I can hang this on Doakes and then ... then what? Years of trials and appeals. With him pointing his finger and calling me killer. For such a neat monster I'm making an awfully big mess.
Dexter: [voiceover] It's said that everything is connected to everything. The butterfly effect. You drop a pebble into a pond and the ripples radiate outward, affecting everything. Until finally a fish grows arms and legs and crawls out of the water, and picks up a rock and smashes the next two fish over the head, and we have the first serial killer.
Dexter: [voiceover] It's strange to have a creation out there. A deeply mutated version of yourself, running loose and screwing everything up... I wonder if this is how parents feel.
Dexter: [voiceover] Jordan promises change. But he also accepts credit cards. [Answering his phone] Lumen?
Lumen: Can you talk? Or are you about to have a major life revelation?
Dexter: No, that came around 9:00am, when I realized that I really wanted a doughnut.
[Lumen and Dexter have just set up the kill room. Dexter is now putting up pictures of the other victims]
Lumen: Can you talk? Or are you about to have a major life revelation?
Dexter: No, that came around 9:00am, when I realized that I really wanted a doughnut.
[Lumen and Dexter have just set up the kill room. Dexter is now putting up pictures of the other victims]
Dexter: [voiceover] Life is good. I'm not at all unhappy - I'm quite content to go about my life believing in nothing, with no fear that there might be something more out there.... But I also have a son, and I also have to think about what he wants, and what's best for him, because who knows? Maybe he'll grow up to be someone who wants to think about...those kinds of things.
Dexter: [voiceover] Lila almost had me believing it was possible. To change, to become something else � as if that ever really happens. I've always known what I am. [pulls on gloves] If the glove fits ...
Dexter: [voiceover] Lumen didn't witness her mother's murder, but she was born in blood like me. Some experiences are so big they change your DNA.
Dexter: [voiceover] Masuka. He's chosen the role of court jester; now we only like him when he's making us laugh. Still, there's something to be said for being a character actor. The lead players, with all those emotions � must be exhausting.
Dexter: [voiceover] 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.
Dexter: [voiceover] My father Harry taught me a few simple rules. Never hurt an innocent and never make a scene.
Dexter: [voiceover] My sister puts up a front so people won't know how vulnerable she really is. Me? I put up a front so people won't know how vulnerable I'm not.
Dexter: [voiceover] My therapist wants me to accept the things that are out of my hands. Tragically for him, he's not out of my hands.
Dexter: [voiceover] Not even a year old and you're already destroying evidence. And having to flee the scene of the crime.
Dexter: [voiceover] Not long ago I had a dream that people could see me for what I am. And for a brief instant in time, the world actually saw my bodies of work. Some even cheered. But as it turns out, nobody mourns the wicked. Sorry, James.
Dexter: [voiceover] Nothing lasts forever. Just ask a Ford Pinto. Eventually, most serial killers get caught. There's really not much of a retirement plan; but, it can't end like this; it's too soon; I'm not ready.