Dexter quotes
468 total quotesDexter: [voiceover, about Ramon Prado] You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Unless you order his favorite and keep him waiting. And waiting.
Dexter: [voiceover, bound to a table] Such a familiar situation. Such an unfamiliar perspective.
Dexter: [voiceover, post-bachelor party] After last night they all think we share a secret, but Miguel's the only one who knows mine. I could tell the rest of them, but then I'll have to kill them. Just like I'm going to kill Miguel.
Dexter: [voiceover, sees LaGuerta collecting evidence] Miguel probably thinks he's getting lucky. Looks like he's getting screwed.
Dexter: [voiceover, trying to write vows] Darling Rita, once you were a dream and a prayer. Now our future is as bright as the sun glinting off the morning dew, and I vow that I will �. Sounds like I'm marrying a unicorn.
Dexter: [voiceover] All the lives I've taken, they've always begged for mercy. I've never understood that concept, until now. This. This is mercy. But only for a friend.
Dexter: [voiceover] But if you play a role long enough, really commit, does it become real? Could I become real?
Dexter: [voiceover] Hand-holding. So simple, so intimate, so ... uncomfortable.
Dexter: [voiceover] Here I am, paradox personified. Taking life, creating life.
Dexter: [voiceover] I tell Miguel to be inconspicuous, and what does he do? He shows up looking like the Unabomber. I've got my work cut out for me.
Dexter: [voiceover] I've never been great at conflict resolution. Not without a blade and several rolls of plastic wrap.
Dexter: [voiceover] If home is where the heart is, where do you go when you don't have a heart? In Miguel's case, a five-star hotel.
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] 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] There are few milestones in life that evoke a stronger response than our final act: death. What was once moving, speaking, killing, and threatening becomes nothing but an empty vessel, which is not so different from how I've always felt.