“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”

“I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter”

“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.”

“If only I was capable of love, how I would have loved Harry.”

“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”

“I watched him as he lay there, taking the needle without flinching and knowing that even the relief it brought was temporary, that his end was coming and he could not stop it—and knowing, too, that he was not afraid, and that he would do this the right way, as he had done everything else in his life the right way. And I knew this, too: Harry understood me. No one else ever had, and no one else ever would, through all time in all the world. Only Harry. The only reason I ever thought about being human was to be more like him.”

“I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.”