“Dexter” quotes

(2006)
TV Series Dexter
Title Dexter
Year 2006
Creator James Manos Jr.
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
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Plot – Dexter is an American crime drama television series following Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department. He spends his days solving crimes, and nights committing them, hunting down murderers who have not been adequately punished by the justice system. Dexter juggles his two personas, recognizing each as a distinct part of himself that must cohesively work as one.
All actors – Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar, C.S. Lee, Lauren Luna Vélez, Desmond Harrington, Julie Benz, Christina Robinson, Geoff Pierson
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  • “I just know there’s something dark in me, and I hide it. I certainly don’t talk about it, but it’s there—always. This Dark Passenger. And when he’s driving, I feel—alive, half-sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don’t fight him. I don’t want to. He’s all I’ve got.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:darkness, wrong]
  • “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.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:love, marriage]
  • “I can kill a man, dismember his body, and be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend’s feeling insecure—I’m totally lost.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
  • Monsters don’t get to live happily ever after.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
  • “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 all together.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:secrecy, secrets]
  • “All you can do is play along with life and hope that sometimes you get it right.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:life, living]
  • “Am I a good person doing bad things or a bad person doing good things?”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:badness, good]
  • “When you’re losing control of your entire life, it helps to focus on what you’re good at.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:control, life]
  • Trust those who seek the truth, but doubt those who say that they have found it.”
    Yvonne Strahovski - Hannah McKay
    [Tag:trust, truth]
  • “I can always see other people’s problems more clearly than my own.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:people, problems]
  • “We create our own destiny every day we live.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:destiny, life]
  • “There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:life, truth]
  • “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.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
  • “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.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:character, rules]
  • “It’s okay. Life doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.”
    Michael C. Hall - Dexter Morgan
    [Tag:life, living]
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