Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

Dexter

Marina View Hotel. It's a key. Maybe some sort of promotional gag – stay the weekend, get a free jar of blood.

Dexter

My sister's right, I don't share my problems with her. Or with anybody. Harry taught me that. Secrecy, self-reliance ... and a well-stocked cupboard of Hefty bags.

Dexter

So this is doom. I've been the architect of so much of it, it's only fair that I should know what the fuss is all about. He left me this room for a reason. Five women gave their blood, their lives for this moment. There's only one way to find out why.

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I've never had much use for the concept of Hell, but if Hell exists, I'm in it. The same images running through my head over and over. I was there. I saw my mother's death. A buried memory forgotten all these years. It climbed inside me that day, and it's been with me every since. My Dark Passenger.

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No wonder I felt so disconnected my entire life. If I did have emotions, I'd have to feel this.

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[voiceover] Thinking Rudy attacked Batista doesn't make any sense. He's a loving boyfriend, he spends his life helping people in need. He brought me steaks. [lock-picking attempt thwarted] Now, that's just rude. Why would loving and helpful Rudy need an industrial-grade lock? And a security camera?

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[voiceover] At times like this, I wish the truth was more easily accessible and less ... ripe.

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I've lived in darkness a long time. Over the years my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.

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[breaking into shipping yard, voiceover] No cameras, no patrols, no dogs. With billions spent on homeland security, it can't be easy as a couple of snips. [cuts padlocked chain and walks in] So much for the War on Terror.

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[voiceover] Finding a needle in a haystack isn't hard when every straw is computerized.

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[at the shipping yard, voiceover] I don't like this place. Something nameless was born here, something that lives in the deepest darkest hole of the thing called Dexter.

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[voiceover] Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed. But I'll never know. I live my life in hiding. My survival depends on it.

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[voiceover] Doakes always sensed something was wrong with me, but now he knows. My devil danced with his demon, and the fiddler's tune is far from over.

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Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again, and again. It has to happen. It's not what I want. But what I want doesn't matter. This is the only way I know how to survive. I'm coiled and ready to strike.

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Although a spare will do.

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I'm on edge. Thirty-eight days, sixteen hours, and twelve minutes have passed since I killed my brother. In that entire time, I haven't had a single night to myself. Sergeant Doakes makes sure of that. He follows me everywhere now. A human bloodhound incited by the scent of darkness. My best hope of losing him is to act relentlessly normal. Dull. So I bowl. What's really disturbing is that I'm good at it.