- Sookie Stackhouse: [arriving at Bill's house] See, I knew it. Underneath that tough vampire exterior, you're nothing but a big softy.
- Bill Compton: Don't tell nobody.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [looking at the clothes] Wow, this is a lot of pink, Bill. I'm sure Jessica will love it.
- Bill Compton: Yes, well I remember when ladies clothing stores sold petticoats.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [giggling] That's just weird.
- Bill Compton: Actually, I kinda miss my times. They left something to the imagination. Unfastenin' 'em required a certain skill.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I think there's a Halloween store around here that might still have some.
- Bill Compton: [grinning] You are such a tease.
- Hoyt Fortenberry: This might sound kind of funny, but I was just sitting there thinking, "How come you don't ever meet a nice girl, Hoyt?" And then you just walked right in.
- Jessica Hamby: How do you know I'm a nice girl?
- Hoyt Fortenberry: 'Cause of your smile, I guess. You can tell a lot about someone by the way they smile.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Eric, about Lafayette] You ought to be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to him!
- Arlene Fowler: [in a rush to Sam] I know, I know. I'm late. But Lisa decided to give Coby a nose piercing like she saw on America's Next Top Model and now he's got an infection.
- Bill Compton: Are you still angry about our fight? Sookie, none of that matters anymore.
- Sookie Stackhouse: You're right. I'm alive and in one piece. Unlike my friend Lafayette who Eric chained up like an animal and left to bleed to death.
- Bill Compton: What?
- Sookie Stackhouse: You better not have known anything about this, Bill Compton. Because if you did, I don't think I could ever forgive you!
- Bill Compton: I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Eric Northman: [behind them] I imagine she's referring to the human in my basement... The human who traded sexual services with a vampire in order to sell his blood - which as you know is a grave offense.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Eric] His name is Lafayette and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to him.
- [slaps him]
- Bill Compton: Sookie!
- Eric Northman: [unfazed] I'm glad you're feeling better and may I add that color suits you very well.
- [refering to her red shirt]
- Sookie Stackhouse: Go to hell!
- Bill Compton: [holding her back] Sookie! Enough!
- Sookie Stackhouse: Oh it's not nearly enough. They've tortured him and bitten him and shot him and kept him down there in his own filth for weeks.
- Bill Compton: [to Eric] Is this true?
- Eric Northman: There are others who would have done far worse and you know it.
- Sookie Stackhouse: You're gonna let him go right now or I swear, I'm going to the police.
- Eric Northman: [draws his fangs] I do not respond well to threats!... But perhaps we could come to some sort of arrangement.
- Sarah Newlin: When the vampires came out of the coffin, I went with my big sister Amber to march for their equal rights.
- Jason Stackhouse: Really?
- Sarah Newlin: Two months later, Amber disappeared. Got hooked on V. I know they killed her. Got rid of her body in whatever way they do.
- Jason Stackhouse: Well, I'm sorry.
- Eric Northman: [after Bill tells him what attacked Sookie] The head of a bull?
- Bill Compton: That's what she said. It was dark. It all happened in seconds.
- Eric Northman: You didn't see this... bull-man?
- Bill Compton: No.
- Eric Northman: And you gave her your blood?
- Bill Compton: I didn't work.
- Eric Northman: [thinking] Hmmm.
- Bill Compton: You ever heard of anything like this?
- Eric Northman: Surprisingly, no.
- Eric Northman: You surprise me. That is rare quality in a breather
- Sookie Stackhouse: [seething] You disgust me.
- Eric Northman: Perhaps I'll grow on you.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I'd prefer cancer!
- [first lines]
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Bill, about Jessica] I'm sorry. She promised she was just gonna look in the window. I know I made a mistake. But they're her family.
- Bill Compton: [enraged] She is a vampire! She has no family!
- Jessica Hamby: [crying] I'm a monster and I'm gonna be alone forever because of you!
- Bill Compton: [to Sookie, about Jessica] You undermined my authority as her maker! You risked those people's safety and your own! If I had not glamoured them with in an inch of their sanity, both our lives would have shattered!
- Sookie Stackhouse: I know. I'm sorry!
- Bill Compton: You keep sayin' that and I am expected to what? Forget this ever happened?
- Sookie Stackhouse: What else do you want me to say? I know when she asked me to take her, I should say no. But all I could think about was Gran and what I would give to see her again.
- Bill Compton: That does not give you license to behave like an irresponsible child! She is a loaded gun, Sookie. Not a doll for you to dress up and play with!
- [Sookie gets out of the car]
- Bill Compton: What are you doing?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Walking!
- Bill Compton: Don't be ridiculous. Bon Temps is nearly 20 miles away!
- Sookie Stackhouse: [walking away] I'd rather walk all night then spend another second in that car with you!
- Jessica Hamby: [to Bill, after he gets back in the car] She wants you to go after her. She wants you to go after her and kiss her and tell her that you love her.
- Bill Compton: She will come back, when she calms down... she will come back.
- Bill Compton: [after finding her bloody] Sookie... What did this to you?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [choking] Bull... human... I couldn't see... Bill, I can't move.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [in the woods, hearing crackling sounds] Bill?... Bill, if you're trying to scare so I'll get back in that car with you, it isn't gonna work.
- Tara Thornton: [to Sam, about Daphne] You can't expect her to learn if you don't give her any positive reinforcement.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [gasping, hurt] Am I dying?
- Dr. Ludwig: Yes.
- Bill Compton: No! She cannot die! You will save her!
- Dr. Ludwig: Back off, vampire. Let me do my job!
- Eric Northman: Forgive him. Bill is abnormally attached to this human.
- Dr. Ludwig: [working on Sookie] Well, we don't have a lot of choices. She's been poisoned. You ever heard of Komodo dragons? Their mouths are teaming with bacteria. After one has bitten you it will track you for hours, days just waiting for the toxins to slowly eat away at your nervous system. 'Til you're good and helpless. Then it will devour you alive.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [gasping] I was... scratched by a dragon?
- Dr. Ludwig: No, but this poison is similar but way more efficient. I don't think I've seen it before but it's hard to tell without further testing and we don't have that kind of time.
- Eric Northman: [about Pam] She is extremely lazy, but loyal. How's yours? Jessica?
- Bill Compton: Petulant. Dangerous. Afraid.
- Eric Northman: I'm glad to see you two are bonding
- Jason Stackhouse: [praying] Dear God. You gotta help me out. I don't know what's right or wrong no more. Maybe I never did. Just... please, please give me another sign. 'Cause I'm lost. I'm so fuckin' lost.
- [is hit with a pillow]
- Luke McDonald: There's your sign. Now shut up. Some of us are trying to sleep.
- Dr. Ludwig: [to Bill, about Sookie] You can give her blood now. Her body should accept it.
- Eric Northman: [moving fast to Bill, about blood] Mine is much stronger. Allow me.
- Bill Compton: Never!
- Tara Thornton: Maryann, why does Sam hate you?
- Maryann Forrester: Sam hates me?
- Tara Thornton: He practically jumped down my throat after you left last night. Kept saying I need to stay away from you. Why would he say that?
- Maryann Forrester: Well I mean, I barely know the man. But if I had to guess, I'd say jealousy. You two have a history, don't you?
- Tara Thornton: Yeah. But we're better as friends than we ever were sleepin' together. We both know that.
- Maryann Forrester: Tara, you're still not valuing yourself. You are a fantastic woman. Sam lost you. He's just lookin for someone to blame.
- Tara Thornton: But why you?
- Maryann Forrester: Because you've moved on and hopefully, I've been apart of making that happen. Sam seems like a sensible, wonderful guy. But all my instincts scream unevolved.
- Tara Thornton: [laughing] You're right. That man has way to many issues.
- Maryann Forrester: And they're not your problem. Unlike Carl, you've done enough of taking care of people to last a lifetime.
- Terry Bellefleur: [looking at Sam's packed SUV] So you're just gonna cut and run? Just like that?
- Sam Merlotte: I'm not runnin'.
- Terry Bellefleur: [almost angry] Uh huh. Remind me never to get stuck in a fox hole with you... coward.
- Ginger: [to Sookie] That's the thing about being with vamps, ain't it? You always forget to eat. I've lost 37 pounds since I got this job. Way better than fat farm.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [to Eric] So if I agree to go to Dallas to help look for this missing vampire, you'll let Lafayette go?
- Bill Compton: No! You nearly died last night. You are not going to Dallas.
- Bill Compton: Bill, I can make up my own mind.
- Eric Northman: I will pay all of your expenses, of course. And yes, I will release your friend.
- Sookie Stackhouse: And I want $5,000.
- [to Bill]
- Sookie Stackhouse: I've missed a lot of work and I need a new driveway.
- Eric Northman: [to Bill] Your human is getting cocky.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [while driving home with Bill] I use to get so mad when people judged vampires just for being different. It's like they were judging me too. I told myself their fear was nothing but small mindedness. But maybe that's what I wanted to believe. 'Cause the more open my mind gets, the more evil I see.
- Bill Compton: Sookie, most of us, vampire, human or otherwise are capable of both good and evil. Often simultaneously.
- Sookie Stackhouse: You can't expect me to believe that Eric is capable of anything good. Not after how he tortured Lafatette.
- Bill Compton: I have had worse sheriffs.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I don't understand how you can defend him.
- Bill Compton: He saved your life.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I can still hate him.
- Bill Compton: I hate that he maybe putting you in harms way once again, for his own selfish reasons. And I hate that he has shown your the barberousness we call justice. If I could glamour it away for you, I would.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I'm glad you can't. I'm sick of things sneakin' up on me. Rene and what ever the hell that was that attacked me last night. If I'm never gonna be safe, I'd rather know what to be affraid of.
- Bill Compton: Well, after last night I hope that doesn't include me.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I know there is evil in you. I know there is and it scares the hell outta me. But you're right. There's goodness in you too and when I look in your eyes, that's what I see.
- Eggs: [going after her] I just carried away, that's all.
- Tara Thornton: Yeah. You and every body else out there. Is this what MaryAnn's about? Are you in the 'lifestyle'?
- Eggs: Lifestyle? Tara, that's just a buncha drunk-ass people, trying to let loose and have a good time. That's got nothing to do with us.
- Tara Thornton: I don't give a crap what people do with their own body parts, but there's not 'us' not if this is your scene.
- Daphne: [to Sam, after the collie runs off] Were you just talking to that dog?
- Sam Merlotte: [in the water] Daphne? What are you doing out here in the middle of the night?
- Daphne: Same as you, I guess. Just tryin' to cool off and I can't sleep. I have this hardass boss. He really laid into me this week.
- Sam Merlotte: He sounds like a jerk.
- Daphne: He's not all bad. He can be real nice, to dogs.
- Sam Merlotte: Listen, I'm real sorry. I've had a lot on my mind.
- Pam De Beaufort: [to Lafayette] Such a shame. I was hoping I could convince Eric to let me keep you.
- Eric Northman: No, you already have enough pets.
- Lafayette Reynolds: No offense, but you ain't exactly my type, bitch.
- Pam De Beaufort: Can I kick him?
- Steve Newlin: And what's going on out there is a war.
- [Jason looks out the window]
- Steve Newlin: Not right now, Jason, but in general. And we all gotta choose sides. Now, you're either on the side of darkness, or the side of light.
- Hoyt Fortenberry: [after Jessica's fangs come out] You don't have to hide that from me, that's natural.
- Jessica Hamby: How can you say that? I mean, I have fangs, and they just come out and I can't control them. This is so embarrassing. I'd die if I wasn't already dead.
- Dr. Ludwig: I'll expect my payment by the end of the week.
- Eric Northman: It's always a pleasure doing business with you, Dr. Ludwig.
- Dr. Ludwig: Fuck off!
- Bill Compton: Clearly the pleasure is one-sided.
- Eric Northman: She's no fan of the fang. She tolerates us, because our blood is of such great value to humans.