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Dexter Morgan Quotes

Total quotes: 64
“There are many ways to stop the heart. Electric shock, bad diet... Sever the aorta - my personal favorite.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 3: Turning Biminese
Tagged: heart, beating, personal favorite, stop the heart, Blood, aorta
“You're what makes me real. I want us to always go out for banana splits. And replant the lemon tree that keeps dying. And I never, ever want to miss a pizza night. And that's how I know I want to marry you.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 3: All In the Family
Tagged: real, banana splits, pizza night, Love, little things, marry you, Proposal
“Role playing. It's such an important part of growing up. When we were kids, whatever role Deb assigned me - evil monster, treacherous Nazi, horrible alien - I played them to perfection. The only roles I had trouble with were the good guys - heroes, knights in shining armor. It just never felt right.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 3: All In the Family
Tagged: role playing, Growing Up, Nazi, horrible, bad guys, Good Guys
“It's strange to have a creation out there. A deeply mutated version of yourself, running loose and screwing everything up... I wonder if this is how parents feel.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: The British Invasion
Tagged: Creation, mutated, Loose, Screwing Things Up, Parenthood
“I lie to everyone I know. Except my victims, right before I kill them. It's hard to establish much of a rapport there.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Left Turn Ahead
Tagged: Lie, Victims, Death, Killing, establish, rapport
“ Harry's heart gave out when he saw what's inside me. He thought he could tame it, give it a purpose, help it find a place in the natural order. Guess he was wrong.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Left Turn Ahead
Tagged: heart, gave out, tame it, purpose, Natural Order, Wrong
“Did you happen to be stuffing a human leg into a garbage bag at that point?”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Left Turn Ahead
Tagged: stuffing, human leg, garbage bag, Murder, Death
“Can't live with her, can't kill her.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Resistance Is Futile
Tagged: Can't live with her can't live without her, Kill, Death, Life
“I love Martha Stewart!”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Dex, Lies, and Videotape
Tagged: Martha Stewart, admiration, Appreciation, Love
“I never really got the whole superhero thing. But lately, it does seem we have a lot in common; tragic beginnings; secret identities; part human, part mutant; archenemies.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: The Dark Defender
Tagged: Superhero, in common, tragic, Secret, human, mutant, enemies
“Think you might have broken a commandment somewhere in there.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: The Dark Defender
Tagged: Commandment, broken
“ I also know denial is the first stage of the grieving process for those who learn they're going to die.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: See-Through
Tagged: Denial, Death, first stage, Grieving
“Lila: The first step to recovery is accepting who you are.

Dexter: I thought the first step was admitting you have a problem.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: See-Through
Tagged: Recovery, accepting, Admitting, Problem
“Dexter: But there's never any justification for killing.

Lundy: No. Well, one, of course. To save an innocent life.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: An Inconvenient Lie
Tagged: justification, Killing, innocent life, saving
“Brian: It's human nature.

Dexter: I'm not human.

Brian: No. You're just fucked up.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Waiting to Exhale
Tagged: Human Nature, Messed Up, humanity, human
“I'm drifting. I finally get a chance to kill and I can't do it, then a second chance and he gets away. And now all my secrets are floating to the surface.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: Waiting to Exhale
Tagged: drifting, Kill, chances, Secrets, Surface
“I really need... to kill somebody.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 2: It's Alive!
Tagged: Killing, Death, Murder
“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.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Born Free
Tagged: denied, unknown, revealed, Life, Hiding, Survival Mechanism
“I know — your big bad wolf has racked up a tidy little death toll.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Shrink Wrap
Tagged: big bad wolf, death toll, Killing
“Pretend. You pretend the feelings are there, for the world, for the people around you.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Circle of Friends
Tagged: Pretend, Feelings, World
“The FBI estimates that there are less that 50 serial killers active in the United States today. We don't get together at conventions, share trade secrets, or exchange Christmas cards... but sometimes I wonder what it's like for the others.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Circle of Friends
Tagged: FBI, Serial Killers, conventions, trade secrets
“I like to pretend I'm alone. Completely alone. Maybe post-apocalypse or plague... whatever. No one left to act normal for. No need to hide who I really am. It would be... freeing.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Love American Style
Tagged: Alone, post-apocalypse, Plague, normal, freeing
“Everyone hides who they are at least some of the time. Sometimes you bury that part of yourself so deeply that you have to be reminded it's there at all. And sometimes you just want to forget who you are altogether.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Let's Give the Boy a Hand
Tagged: Hides, Bury, Forget who you are, reminded
“The willful taking of life represents the ultimate disconnect from humanity. It leaves you an outsider, forever looking in, searching for company to keep.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Popping Cherry
Tagged: Life, Disconnect, humanity, Outsider
“Keeping my face pinched in sorrow for two hours straight's a real chore.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Popping Cherry
Tagged: chore, face pinched, Sorrow, Inconvenient
“Most people have a hard time dealing with death, but I'm not most people. It's the grief that makes me uncomfortable. Not because I'm a killer. Really, I just don't understand all that emotion, which makes it tough to fake. In those cases, shades come in handy.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Popping Cherry
Tagged: Death, Grief, Emotion, Uncomfortable, Killer, fake
“My sister puts up a front so the world won't see how vulnerable she is. Me? I put up a front so the world won't see how vulnerable I'm not.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Crocodile
Tagged: sister, Puts up a front, World, Vulnerable
“I'm a very neat monster.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Dexter
Tagged: neat, cover my tracks, monster, Identity
“They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being, it’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: The Big One
Tagged: Human Connections, Sad, Loneliness, Disconnected From Humanity, Loneliness
“I love Halloween. The one time of year when everyone wears a mask, not just me. People think it's fun to pretend you're a monster. Me, I spend my life pretending I'm not. Brother, friend, boyfriend: all part of my costume collection. Some people might call me a fraud. Let's see if it will fit. I prefer to think of myself as a master of disguise.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 1: Let's Give the Boy a Hand
Tagged: Master of Disguise, Halloween, costumes, dressing up, When The Real You Is Terrible
“We all make rules for ourselves. It's these rules that help define who we are. So when we break those rules we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 7: Surprise, Motherfucker!
Tagged: Rules, What Keeps Our Life In Order, Identity
“Never jump the fence if you're not willing to face what's on the other side.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 7: Surprise, Motherfucker!
Tagged: jump, fence
“Most people believe we have free will. That we all choose our path. Sometimes the path is clear, sometimes not so much. Every twist, every turn, can challenge our sense of direction. But it's the choices we make when we reach a fork in the road that define who we are.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 6: Just Let Go
Tagged: Free Will, Path, Challenges
“We all want life to have some meaning. Seems like the older we get, the harder we look for it. And the harder it is to find.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 6: Smokey and the Bandit
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Meaning Of Life
“High school. A small world unto itself. Combining all the warmest elements of a federal work camp with those of a third world poultry farm. It's a miracle I graduated without killing anyone.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 6: Smokey and the Bandit
Tagged: high school, Federal Work Camp, Poultry Farm
“Don't be sorry your darkness is gone. I'll carry it for you. Always. I'll keep it with mine.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: Hop a Freighter
Tagged: Sorrow, Darkness
“Despite having considered myself a monster for as long as I can remember, it still comes as a shock when I'm confronted with the depth of evil that exists in this world.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: Hop a Freighter
Tagged: monsters, Shock, Evil
“We all have something to hide; some dark place inside us we don't want the world to see. So we pretend everything's okay, wrapping ourselves in rainbows. And maybe that's all for the best. Because some of these places are darker than others.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 5: First Blood
Tagged: Hiding, Evasion, Secrets
“Life doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 4: Hello, Dexter Morgan
“Is that the purpose of remorse, to keep you from repeating mistakes?”
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter, Season 4: Road Kill
Tagged: Remorse, Mistakes
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