"Tonight's the night. And it's gonna happen again and again. Has to happen."

"Open your eyes and look at what you did! Look or I'll cut your eyelids right off your face."

"Trust me, I definitely understand. See, I can't help myself either. But children, I could never do that. Not like you. Never kids."

"My name is Dexter, Dexter Morgan. I don't know what made me the way I am. But whatever it was, left a hollow place inside."

"People fake a lot of human interactions but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well."

"Blood. Sometimes it sets my teeth on edge."

"I'm a very neat monster."

"I don't have feelings about anything but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb."

"With a solve rate for murders at about 20%, Miami is a great place for me."

"The only real question I have is why, in a building full of cops, all supposedly with a keen insight into the human soul, is Doakes the only one who gets the creeps from me?"

"For me sex never enters into it. I don't understand sex. Not that I have anything against women and I certainly have an appropriate sensibility about men. But when it comes to the actual act of sex, it's always just seemed so undignified.

"She's perfect because Rita is, in her own way, just as damaged as me."

"Normal people are so hostile."

"The ritual is intoxicating ."

"I think this is a friendly message, hey, wanna play? And yes, I wanna play. I really really do."