Dexter Season 1 quotes

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.

Rudy

I mean, Deb's hot and all, but sprinkle in a little conversation once in a while, you know?

Dexter

Well, she's my sister. I don't know.

Rita

Where were you?

Dexter

Taking out the trash.

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.

Debra

Dex, you are all the family that I have, and I barely know you. So, if you're going to eat steaks with somebody after a rough day, somebody's going to break through your fucking walls, I think it should be me! I think I have earned it!

Dexter

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.

Doakes

You just found out that somebody who's supposed to be your friend is going to live. Does that make you feel anything? Anything at all? [grabbing Dexter's shoulder]

Dexter

Take your fucking hand off me.

Doakes

Just what I always thought.

[while gift-wrapping dismembered parts] Deck the halls with parts of bodies, fa la la la la, la la la la.

Dexter

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

Dexter

[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?

Dexter

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

Debra Morgan, will you marry me?

Debra

I knew it, I fucking knew it!

Is that your version of a yes?

You know the one thing I've been dying to ask you? How did you not know who I was? You're a cop.

Debra

This isn't funny.

I think a real cop would at least have a sense she was in the presence of the person she was hunting.

Dexter

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