Memorable quotes for
"Dexter" (2006) More at IMDbPro »

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Dexter Morgan: [thinking] Tonight's the night.

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Dexter Morgan: [as victim averts his eyes from dead bodies] Look! Or I will cut your eyelids right off your face.

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Dexter Morgan: Harry and Dorris Morgan did a wonderful job raising me. But they're both dead now. I didn't kill them. Honest.

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Harry Morgan: Remember this forever, you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.

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Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; he taught me how to cover my tracks. I'm a very neat monster.

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Dexter Morgan: [voiceover] People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That's my burden, I guess.

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Dexter Morgan: So what's up, hot shot?
Debra Morgan: Alright, get this. Lieutenant's looking for that refrigerated truck in every swamp, glade and chop shop from here to the Keys. The way I see it, that whack-job truck driver threw a severed head at your car. It's not as if he's shy.
Dexter Morgan: You think he's hiding the truck in plain sight, wanting it to be found?

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Debra Morgan: Why is it we never talk brother-sister stuff?
Dexter Morgan: Our dad was a cop, you're a cop, I work for the cops... for us, this is brother-sister stuff.

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Dexter Morgan: We have an elephant in the room and its name is sex.
Rita Bennett: [laughs weakly] Tell me about it.
Dexter Morgan: Hey, as far as I'm concerned, it can just stay in the corner and mind its own damn business.
Rita Bennett: [softly] Easier said than done
Dexter Morgan: Yeah,
[gently brushes her hair back]
Dexter Morgan: but it needs to be right, for both of us. Or, it won't be right for either of us. I don't want that, do you?
Rita Bennett: No. You know, I can't believe I found the one good truly decent man left on the planet

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Dexter Morgan: 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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Sergeant James Doakes: [Dexter was about to hit Doakes with a torch] Go ahead. Try it. I've been waiting.
Dexter Morgan: This neighbourhood?
[shines the torch on himself]
Dexter Morgan: It's full of crazies. I'd lock my doors.

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Debra Morgan: Bathroom's all yours
Dexter Morgan: Eh. Kind of always was.

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Vince Masuka: Say it.
Dexter Morgan: ...You're my daddy?
Vince Masuka: Sounds weird when you say it.

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Vince Masuka: The fucking Bay Habour Butcher is butchering up my own social life.
[Masuka leaves the room]
Dexter Morgan: Sorry.

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Dexter Morgan: Doakes thinks he knows my secrets. But he only needs to look at this - my body of work - to know the real me

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Special Agent Frank Lundy: Suit up if you're gonna touch it.
Dexter Morgan: Oh! No, I'm just dropping off some x-rays. I'm Dexter Morgan?
Special Agent Frank Lundy: I know who you are.

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Dexter Morgan: How many more bodies would there have been had I not got to those killers? I didn't want to save lives, but save lives I did. Motivation aside, I think Harry and Lundy would agree on this one.

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Dexter Morgan: [Dexter throws Roger into the back of the mini-van] You were right about the ample cargo space.

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