Dexter quotes

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Masuka: The dragon lady represents the dualities of my inner warrior.
Debra: Or your inner idiot
Masuka: Hey, if you can't muster up some respect, I'm dropping the curtain.

Masuka: The fucking Bay Habour Butcher is butchering up my own social life.
[Masuka leaves the room]
Dexter: Sorry.

Masuka: This man is a knight in shining armor. You should be polishing his lance. [awkward pause] I meant that metaphorically - not how it sounded.

Masuka: Tramp stamp. I think I'm in love.
Debra: If she's into needles, why don't you show her your dick?

Masuka: We all have our own ways of expressing ourselves. I have my ink, and you have your man boots.

Masuka: Who's your daddy?
Dexter: ... Uh, Harry Morgan?

Michael Angelo: Any friend of Sugar's is a friend of mine.
Deb: Sugar?
Masuka: [laughs]

Miguel Prado: So a man dies, Mr. Morgan. And what's left, a soul? And what is that, exactly?
Dexter: I really couldn't tell you.
Miguel Prado: Some people say that the soul lives on forever.
Dexter: I hope not.
Miguel Prado: Which makes you a cynic.
Dexter: Makes me a ... scientist.

Miguel: [wrapped to a table] It doesn't have to come to this.
Dexter: But it always does. I had high hopes for you, but I guess I just have to accept that I will always be alone.
Miguel: That's not true.
Dexter: You talking truth. That's good. You actually had me believing that I could have a friend and you fed me all your bullshit.
Miguel: It wasn't bullshit!
Dexter:[Clamps a hand over Miguel's mouth] Shh...
Miguel: I tried. I tried to crack through that armor of yours. I know it's a possibility. I can still see the possibilities.
Dexter: So this is my fault for being shut down?
Miguel: I just wanted you to let me in!
Dexter: Why the fuck would I do that now?
Miguel: I know you. I know you, Dex, better than anyone else.
Dexter: Oh, there've been quite a few who've seen the real me as they laid on that table. You're all just unchecked versions of myself. What I would've become without my father's code.
Miguel: I'm not like them! I'm like you.
Dexter:[Slaps him] No, no, no, no. No. I know I'm a monster.
Miguel: I accept you. I accept you, Dex, like a brother.
Dexter: I killed my brother.
Miguel: ...
Dexter: I killed yours, too.
Miguel:[Shocked] Oscar?...You?
Dexter: I didn't plan to, but it was... kill or be killed, ya know.
Miguel:[Wracked with emotion] YOU!!! You killed Oscar!
Dexter: What did you say in your bachelor party speech? Friends are always honest.
Miguel: Friends forgive. Friends forgive.
Dexter: But I don't forgive you � and I don't get to have friends.
Miguel:[As Dexter wraps a garrote around his neck] You little freak! You think I'm done with you?! You think this ends here?! IT DOESN'T!!!
Dexter: It does for you.[Strangles Miguel until he's dead]
Dexter: [Voiceover] Adios, amigo.

Miguel: Friends are always honest with each other. They can see past their differences. When they have a conflict, friends are there to forgive, a true friend knows when to bury the hatchet because friendship is a sacred bond build on trust

Miguel: I'll do what I want to whom I want, to whoever I want! Count on it!

Miguel: So, uh, Ellen Wolf, a piece of work, right?
Dexter: [thoughs] Go easy, be tactful. [speech] We can't kill her.

Mike Donovan: 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.

Mindy: So, are you going to go to the spring formal?
Teenage Dexter: Why would I want to do that?
[Hurt, Mindy leaves]
Harry Morgan: She wanted you to ask her to the dance, Dexter.
Teenage Dexter: That's not what she said.
Harry Morgan: Well, you have to learn their signals.
Teenage Dexter: Yeah, well, I don't really care about girls.
Harry Morgan: Oh.
Teenage Dexter: I just like being alone.
Harry Morgan: But most normal people don't, and it's important that you seem normal.
Teenage Dexter: Even though I'm not.
Harry Morgan: Because you're not.

Nicky: You're a fucking cop for Christ's sake. You piss people off for a living.