Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

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[Voiceover] Three days. 72 precious hours to recharge my batteries. 'Course Rita doesn't know I'll be recharging with another woman.

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It was Harry's. I wasn't comfortable having it now with the kids, so I kept it here.

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See? I have nothing to hide ...

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[voiceover] ... except for the syringes, scalpels and bonesaws hidden in that secret drawer underneath.

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[going after Trinity] It's almost poetic. One serial killer ending the 30-year reign of another.

Yesterday I had Lundy and Anton and now they are gone because of me.

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You didn't do anything wrong.

It doesn't matter what I do, doesn't matter what I choose. I am what's wrong. And there is nothing I can do about it. If I'm not hurting myself, I'm hurting everyone around me. And there is nothing I can do about it. I am... I am broken!

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You are not. I am

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[Voiceover] This is what makes a home - the noise of happy children, the warmth of a full house...the chill of an angry wife.

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[Voiceover] We both have skeletons, which means we both get a closet to keep them in. Arthur has a closet. I know almost everything about you, Arthur, except where you hide. Ready or not, here I come.

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[Voiceover] Arthur's been using Four Walls builds around the country as a cover to kill. And these are his trophies. Hanging right up here on the wall just like his hammer in the garage. His blood slides.

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[Voiceover] I was born of primordial ooze. I crawled out of my own mother's blood. I hid among the humans, hoping not to be seen. But somewhere along the way, I grew legs, stood upright. I became a husband, a father. I had to evolve. It was the only way to survive.

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Man has always been drawn to the sea. But it's an unnatural setting for us. A place of great danger. Tides, currents, waves, wind. Each presenting their own hazards. None of which can be ignored. The slightest lapse of judgement can be a mistake you might never recover from. But a good sailor doesn't fight against these elements. A good sailor works with them, using them to his advantage. While others, less fortunate might be forever cast adrift, often in several pieces, he always comes home safely.

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[Voiceover] There's a moment sailors call slack tide... when the tide is neither coming in nor going out, but perfectly still. It's a moment frozen in time, when all is calm and peaceful. The only downside to it is that it passes so quickly. As much as we might like some things to remain suspended in time, they never do.

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[voiceover] Born in blood. Both of us.

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[voiceover] I should have... No, not should haves, I don't do should haves, that's not me. I just need to stop thinking about it.

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[Voiceover] So I made a mistake. It could've happened to anyone - well, any murderer - not that murderers typically care whether their victims are innocent are not. But why is it eating at me? Jonathan Farrow - S&M photographer, abuser of women, asshole, but not a killer - not up to Harry's code. Yet I killed him. Now I'm... uncomfortable.

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[Voiceover] Keeping my tools in a shipping container makes more sense than a backyard shed. After all, it's where my dark passenger was born.

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[Voiceover] I need to be a good brother now so that I can be a good serial killer later.