Dexter quotes
468 total quotesDexter: Doakes thinks he knows my secrets. But he only needs to look at this � my body of work � to know the real me.
Dexter: Don't test me, Sergeant. I could have killed you. I didn't.
Doakes: You didn't because you can't. I've had time to think about this, Morgan. I don't fit that code you were talking about, do I? At first I thought the Butcher only went after criminals because nobody gives a God damn what happens to them. But now ... now I think you got a conscience.
Dexter: Of course I have a conscience. I left you a place to shit, didn't I? It's a small conscience.
Doakes: You didn't because you can't. I've had time to think about this, Morgan. I don't fit that code you were talking about, do I? At first I thought the Butcher only went after criminals because nobody gives a God damn what happens to them. But now ... now I think you got a conscience.
Dexter: Of course I have a conscience. I left you a place to shit, didn't I? It's a small conscience.
Dexter: Everyone hides who they are at least some of their time. Sometimes you bury that part of yourself so deeply that you have to be reminded it's there at all. And sometimes you just want to forget who you are all together.
Dexter: For the first time, I feel that the future might hold something different for me. It's possible I'm just fooling myself, but I'm willing to take the risk.
Dexter: 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.
Dexter: 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 where the real me starts. If I'm just a collection of learned behaviors, bits and pieces of Harry, maybe my new friend is right. Maybe I am a fraud.
Dexter: Harry? [voiceover] Where are you now?, when I really need you. When it´s my wife in a bodybag everybody is looking and it´s the neighbor crying, not me.
Dexter: Hey, Sergeant. Thanks for supporting the bowling team.
Doakes: Fuck you.
Doakes: Fuck you.
Dexter: Hey, you know anything about wedding bands?
Debra: Yeah, wedding rings and nuclear fission are my secret specialties.
Dexter: Thanks. [leaves]
Quinn: Your brother's kind of a dweeb, huh?
Debra: You say anything more about my brother and I will kick your fucking nuts down your throat.
Quinn: [laughs] That doesn't even make any sense.
Debra: Yeah, wedding rings and nuclear fission are my secret specialties.
Dexter: Thanks. [leaves]
Quinn: Your brother's kind of a dweeb, huh?
Debra: You say anything more about my brother and I will kick your fucking nuts down your throat.
Quinn: [laughs] That doesn't even make any sense.
Dexter: High school. A small world onto itself, combining all the warmest elements of a federal work camp with those of a third world poultry farm. It's a miracle I graduated without killing anyone.
Dexter: Hold the elevator!
[Dexter gets his arm into the elevator doors as they close. The elevator opens and he enters. Doakes is in there]
Dexter: Thanks.
Doakes: Nice dodge last night, flooring it through that yellow light.
Dexter: Oh. Were you behind me?
Doakes: See you tonight.
[Dexter gets his arm into the elevator doors as they close. The elevator opens and he enters. Doakes is in there]
Dexter: Thanks.
Doakes: Nice dodge last night, flooring it through that yellow light.
Dexter: Oh. Were you behind me?
Doakes: See you tonight.
Dexter: How many more bodies would there have been had I not got to those killers? I didn't want to save lives, but save lives I did. Motivation aside, I think Harry and Lundy would agree on this one.
Dexter: Human bonds always lead to messy complications. Commitment. Sharing. Driving people to the airport.
Dexter: I can't afford to lose it. Not with Special Agent Rock Star on my case.