Dexter Morgan quotes from Dexter

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[voiceover] Here I am, paradox personified. Taking life, creating life.

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[voiceover] There are many ways to stop the heart. Electric shock, bad diet... Sever the aorta - my personal favorite.

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[voiceover] Ethan Turner was incapable of compromise. He loved his wives' money more than he loved them. And in the end, it cost him dearly. I don't want to be like Ethan. Maybe my days of coming and going as I please are over, but that doesn't mean my life is over.

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My dad used to say, "Be careful what you think you know about someone – you're probably wrong."

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[voiceover] Clemson Galt has been on my top ten list for years, and Miguel could be a big help. But the goal here isn't to satisfy my need, it's to get Miguel to find some other hobby.

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[voiceover] Hand-holding. So simple, so intimate, so ... uncomfortable.

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[voiceover] I've never been great at conflict resolution. Not without a blade and several rolls of plastic wrap.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[voiceover] Today I wake up, kiss the wife-to-be, feed the step-kids-to-be, dress myself in the usual pants, shirt ... and pretense.

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[sees Astor fast asleep at Debra's] What'd you use on her, chloroform?

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I know what it is to want to re-balance an unbalanced world. But it's just unbalanced, Angel, that's it. Some doors should stay shut. You open it, it's too easy to walk through it a second time.

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[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.

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[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.