- Sam Merlotte: [about her party] What do you want it took look like?
- Terry Bellefleur: A débutante ball.
- Arlene Fowler: [happily] Hug your neck! You know exactly what I'm talkin' about. I'll be right back. Thank you, Sam!
- [walks off]
- Sam Merlotte: How'd you know what she wanted?
- Terry Bellefleur: My cousin Portia was a deb, in Shreveport when she turned 18. Every Bellefleur woman's been doin' it since they started having 'em before the Revolutionary War.
- Sam Merlotte: Must be nice to come from such an old family.
- Terry Bellefleur: All families are old, Sam. Some just keep better records.
- Bill Compton: Long Shadow was choking the girl and would have killed her.
- Magister: So you murdered a higher life form for the sake of your pet! You broke an acient and fundimental law. You decreased our numbers at a critical time in our history. Very bad. Very, very bad.
- Bill Compton: Magister, Long Shadow broke the law first. She was mine and he knew it. He would have killed her and fed from her!
- Magister: [displeased] Hello! Human! Irrelevant. Happens every day!
- Bill Compton: He was stealing from Eric.
- Magister: Sheriff?
- Eric Northman: Yes, Magister. It's true. Long Shadow was a thief and a liar. He was hurting my business.
- Magister: [considering] The business part, that is a serious offense.
- Bill Compton: And it was the human who exposed Long Shadow. Would you tell him, Eric?
- Eric Northman: The only reason the girl was there was because I called her.
- Bill Compton: To protect your wealth!
- Eric Northman: To protect my wealth, yes. Magister, she is... valuable.
- Magister: Humans exist to serve us. That is their only value.
- Bill Compton: There are those among us who think differently.
- Magister: [challenging] Do you question my authority? I am the magister. I was trained in the Inquisition and I am the adjudicator for every vampire territory in North America! As the humans say, the humans you love more than your own kind, back your shit down!
- Eric Northman: [warningly] Bill.
- Magister: Well, you haven't bored me. That works in your favor. And you seem to be obedient to your sheriff.
- Eric Northman: For the most part... When it matters, yes he is.
- Magister: The usual sentence is five years in a coffin, chained with silver. During which time your body will waste to leather and sticks. You'll probably go insane. However, I'm feeling a bit... creative.
- Terry Bellefleur: I'd ask you to dance, but I don't dance.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Thanks anyhow, Terry. Sometimes crowds make me feel guilty for not having fun like everyone else. And then I feel guilty for feeling guilty.
- Terry Bellefleur: Guilt is a useless emotion. Or so I've heard.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I just wish Bill was here.
- Terry Bellefleur: There some dead people I wish were still around, too.
- Sam Merlotte: [transforming] I'm not the killer, I swear. I'm a shapeshifter.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [thunderstruck] ... Shut the fuck up.
- Andy Bellefleur: Sam... where the hell did you come from?
- Sam Merlotte: I come from exactly the same place everybody else comes from, Andy.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [finding Sam naked at the foot of her bed] What the hell are you doing here?
- Sam Merlotte: Nothing. Sleeping.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did you touch me?
- Sam Merlotte: Hell, no, I swear. Sookie, listen. Bill... Bill asked me to look after you while he was away.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Did he ask you to do it buck naked?
- Amy Burley: Well, you know what I love about Jason? Everything is just right there on the surface. You never have to wonder what he's thinking.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Yeah, because he ain't thinking.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [after he told her about shape shifting] What else is there?
- Sam Merlotte: More than you can imagine.
- Tara Thornton: [infuriated] What was in that shit you gave me, that snake juice?
- Miss Jeanette: Ipecac syrup and a small amount of peyote. It's perfectly safe.
- Magister: [to a vampire] Idiot! You fed on a human that belonged to another. Three months of starving 'till your fangs grow back will teach you better manners.
- Lafayette Reynolds: [knocking Jason to the ground] I told you to keep your god damn mouth shut!
- Jason Stackhouse: Hey! This is my good shirt. And yeah, I kept my mouth shut.
- Lafayette Reynolds: My supplier, he gone! He fuckin' missing and if other vampires find out that I been sellin', the same shit is gonna - you understand that - the same shit is gonna happen to me!
- Jason Stackhouse: [getting to his feet] You got nothin' to worry about.