What's your plan here? Nurse her back to health so she can go to the police? If she gives the cops enough to track you down then everything falls apart. Harrison grows up visiting you on death row.

Long after you're executed, they'll still have to go through life with your name branded across their foreheads.

Dexter: My dark passenger is ruining my life.
Harry: It is your life.

Dexter: He's never taken a child before.
Harry: That you know of. If this is new, it's on you.

If anyone has ever deserved to be on your table, it's this son of a bitch.

Harry: Why do you think Trinity has been so successful? He doesn't have a family.
Dexter: Well, I do.
Harry: Miss them yet?

You're juggling family, work and a Dark Passenger that's always got one hand on the steering wheel.

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

Harry Morgan: Being part of a family means smiling for photos.
Young Dexter: Why should I pretend to be happy?

[talking to young Dexter] Remember this forever, you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.

Dexter Quotes

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

Dexter Morgan

I think this is a friendly message like, "Hey! wanna play?" and yes I wanna play. I really really do.

Dexter Morgan