Dexter Quotes
Dexter: You ever drop a quart of milk? Watch it spread over the whole kitchen floor? The mess it makes?
Miguel: Yeah.
Dexter: There's six quarts of blood in the human body. This isn't going to be pretty. There's no shame in backing out.
Miguel: Dex, after 14 years of filing briefs, trying cases, and dealing with bullshit, this is all going to look nice and neat in comparison.
Miguel: Yeah.
Dexter: There's six quarts of blood in the human body. This isn't going to be pretty. There's no shame in backing out.
Miguel: Dex, after 14 years of filing briefs, trying cases, and dealing with bullshit, this is all going to look nice and neat in comparison.
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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.
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Dexter: [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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Sylvia: [sobbing] When you've been married as long as we have, you know when your husband's lying.
Dexter: [voiceover] Something to look forward to.
Dexter: [voiceover] Something to look forward to.
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Debra: Skinner's had him for 24 hours. How long do you think he can hold out?
Dexter: Well, the M.E.'s report on the other victims suggests that the Skinner starts slow, probably to build fear. Anton's a big guy, lot of skin. [Debra looking horrified] … That's meant to be comforting.
Dexter: Well, the M.E.'s report on the other victims suggests that the Skinner starts slow, probably to build fear. Anton's a big guy, lot of skin. [Debra looking horrified] … That's meant to be comforting.
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Maria LaGuerta: You know, someone, a good friend, actually, told me I had a big wall around me. I thought it made me a better cop. I don't think it did.
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[In Miguel's office, playing PC shooting game]
Dexter: [voiceover] It's all about strategy. Out-maneuvering the opposition, bending him to your will.
Miguel: What are you doing in my office, Dex?
Dexter: Winning.
Dexter: [voiceover] It's all about strategy. Out-maneuvering the opposition, bending him to your will.
Miguel: What are you doing in my office, Dex?
Dexter: Winning.
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Rita: [in her wedding dress] I feel like Cinderella … except for the whole Disney-virgin thing.
Sylvia: Don't worry. No one will know Prince Charming knocked you up before the ball.
Sylvia: Don't worry. No one will know Prince Charming knocked you up before the ball.
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Dexter: 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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Miguel: Friends are always honest with each other. They can see past their differences. When they have a conflict, friends are there to forgive, a true friend knows when to bury the hatchet because friendship is a sacred bond build on trust
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Vince Masuka: Premium alcohol, all-you-can-eat buffet, plus high-class adult entertainment.
Dexter: [voiceover] Kill me now.
Dexter: [voiceover] Kill me now.
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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.
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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.
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Dexter: [voiceover, sees LaGuerta collecting evidence] Miguel probably thinks he's getting lucky. Looks like he's getting screwed.
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Dexter: You need something under the table, I'm your guy. [pause] That didn't come out right.
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Vince Masuka: What are you working on?
Dexter: I, uh, found a gray hair. I was curious.
Vince Masuka: Oh, dude, I've totally done that.
Dexter: You're bald.
Vince Masuka: [points below belt]
Dexter: Oh.
Dexter: I, uh, found a gray hair. I was curious.
Vince Masuka: Oh, dude, I've totally done that.
Dexter: You're bald.
Vince Masuka: [points below belt]
Dexter: Oh.
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Debra: Whenever you have an earth-shattering, ball-crushing mindfuck of a secret, you should tell your fucking sister.
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Miguel: [wrapped to a table] It doesn't have to come to this.
Dexter: But it always does. I had high hopes for you, but I guess I just have to accept that I will always be alone.
Miguel: That's not true.
Dexter: You talking truth. That's good. You actually had me believing that I could have a friend and you fed me all your bullshit.
Miguel: It wasn't bullshit!
Dexter: [Clamps a hand over Miguel's mouth] Shh...
Miguel: I tried. I tried to crack through that armor of yours. I know it's a possibility. I can still see the possibilities.
Dexter: So this is my fault for being shut down?
Miguel: I just wanted you to let me in!
Dexter: Why the fuck would I do that now?
Miguel: I know you. I know you, Dex, better than anyone else.
Dexter: Oh, there've been quite a few who've seen the real me as they laid on that table. You're all just unchecked versions of myself. What I would've become without my father's code.
Miguel: I'm not like them! I'm like you.
Dexter: [Slaps him] No, no, no, no. No. I know I'm a monster.
Miguel: I accept you. I accept you, Dex, like a brother.
Dexter: I killed my brother.
Miguel: …
Dexter: I killed yours, too.
Miguel: [Shocked] Oscar?...You?
Dexter: I didn't plan to, but it was... kill or be killed, ya know.
Miguel: [Wracked with emotion] YOU!!! You killed Oscar!
Dexter: What did you say in your bachelor party speech? Friends are always honest.
Miguel: Friends forgive. Friends forgive.
Dexter: But I don't forgive you – and I don't get to have friends.
Miguel: [As Dexter wraps a garrote around his neck] You little freak! You think I'm done with y
Dexter: But it always does. I had high hopes for you, but I guess I just have to accept that I will always be alone.
Miguel: That's not true.
Dexter: You talking truth. That's good. You actually had me believing that I could have a friend and you fed me all your bullshit.
Miguel: It wasn't bullshit!
Dexter: [Clamps a hand over Miguel's mouth] Shh...
Miguel: I tried. I tried to crack through that armor of yours. I know it's a possibility. I can still see the possibilities.
Dexter: So this is my fault for being shut down?
Miguel: I just wanted you to let me in!
Dexter: Why the fuck would I do that now?
Miguel: I know you. I know you, Dex, better than anyone else.
Dexter: Oh, there've been quite a few who've seen the real me as they laid on that table. You're all just unchecked versions of myself. What I would've become without my father's code.
Miguel: I'm not like them! I'm like you.
Dexter: [Slaps him] No, no, no, no. No. I know I'm a monster.
Miguel: I accept you. I accept you, Dex, like a brother.
Dexter: I killed my brother.
Miguel: …
Dexter: I killed yours, too.
Miguel: [Shocked] Oscar?...You?
Dexter: I didn't plan to, but it was... kill or be killed, ya know.
Miguel: [Wracked with emotion] YOU!!! You killed Oscar!
Dexter: What did you say in your bachelor party speech? Friends are always honest.
Miguel: Friends forgive. Friends forgive.
Dexter: But I don't forgive you – and I don't get to have friends.
Miguel: [As Dexter wraps a garrote around his neck] You little freak! You think I'm done with y
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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.
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Dexter: That was awkward. I don't think I've ever been asked to leave a funeral before.
Rita: Ramon didn't ask you to leave – he pushed you out the door. He's just so angry.
Dexter: He's lost two brothers. He doesn't know whom to blame.
Rita: Certainly not you.
Dexter: [voiceover] No, certainly not me.
Rita: Ramon didn't ask you to leave – he pushed you out the door. He's just so angry.
Dexter: He's lost two brothers. He doesn't know whom to blame.
Rita: Certainly not you.
Dexter: [voiceover] No, certainly not me.
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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.
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Debra: They all say the same thing, "King was a very polite gardener, can't believe he's the Skinner."
Quinn: I hate polite killers.
Quinn: I hate polite killers.
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Dexter: [voiceover, bound to a table] Such a familiar situation. Such an unfamiliar perspective.
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Debra: You're completely different from me. You're laid back, and musician-y, and unambitious. You're like Valium.
Anton: And you're like Red Bull.
Debra: You are the best thing that has happened to me.
Anton: And you're like Red Bull.
Debra: You are the best thing that has happened to me.
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Dexter: [voiceover] We all have secrets. In that way, I'm just like everyone else – sorta.
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