Dexter quotes

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Harry Morgan: Never underestimate the capacity of other people to let you down.

Harry Morgan: No matter how close two people are, an infinite distance separates them.

Harry Morgan: We only see two things in people: what we want to see and what they want to show us.

Harry Morgan: You're here. Rita's back home. You're cheating on her and you don't even realize it.
Dexter: I'll make time for my Dark Passenger and for Rita.
Harry Morgan: It's about priorities, Dexter. You're going to have to choose which one is your mistress and which one is your wife, and more importantly, which one comes first.

Maria LaGuerta: You know, someone, a good friend, actually, told me I had a big wall around me. I thought it made me a better cop. I don't think it did.

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.

Rita: [in her wedding dress] I feel like Cinderella ... except for the whole Disney-virgin thing.
Sylvia: Don't worry. No one will know Prince Charming knocked you up before the ball.

Rita: God created pudding, and then he rested.

Sylvia Prado: Men are such babies. They need to be carried kicking and screaming into fatherhood.

Sylvia: [sobbing] When you've been married as long as we have, you know when your husband's lying.
Dexter: [voiceover] Something to look forward to.

Vince Masuka: A hooker is a terrible thing to waste.