- Lafayette Reynolds: [about the senator] Did you hear what he just said?
- Terry Bellefleur: I can't listen to politicians no more. I get a seizure.
- Lafayette Reynolds: [while shaking the senator's hand] I'm so happy and proud to shake the hand of someone with your values. Too often we're governed by criminals and hypocrites. Don't you agree? But I can tell you're a man of virtues and I applaud the effort you're making against the poor and disenfranchised, especially the vampires and the gays.
- Duke Smith: Thank you. Next.
- Lafayette Reynolds: So many things can happen to bring down a fine personage such as yourself. You might wanna be careful, you hear?
- Bill Compton: Jessica, stop!
- Jessica: No!
- Bill Compton: Stop!
- [pulls her down on a rock]
- Jessica: Why?
- Bill Compton: Because we need to talk.
- Jessica: [without caring for what Bill's saying] Why?
- Bill Compton: Because there are things you must learn.
- Jessica: Why?
- Bill Compton: Because you are no longer human.
- Jessica: Why?
- Bill Compton: Because, as I've been trying to explain to you at length, you have been made vampire!
- Jessica: [suddenly scared] Why?
- Bill Compton: Because you were unlucky. Because life and death are unfair. Because of me.
- Bill Compton: [while he is digging a grave for Jessica, to Pam] Would you leave her alone!
- Pam: It's your own fault. You and your insane affection for stupid cows.
- Bill Compton: Just go away!
- Pam: I wouldn't be here if the magister could trust you.
- Bill Compton: I fulfilled the conditions of my sentence! I murdered this innocent girl.
- Pam: There was no murder. You drained her blood and gave her yours.
- Bill Compton: I've proven my loyalty!
- Pam: Yes. But you're romantic, you're sentimental. You just might do something to keep the little blood bag from joinin' our ranks. I'll follow my orders. I won't let you stake her before she goes to ground.
- Bill Compton: I'm not gonna stake her. I'm gonna set her free.
- Pam: You've already set her free. The same as Eric freed me.
- Bill Compton: Everyone she's ever known will recoil from her. Everything she's ever loved has been stolen from her.
- Pam: Oh, please! There's no comparison. You've given that pathetic lump of temporary flesh...
- Bill Compton: Jessica!
- Pam: The ultimate gift. You're a maker. You're a hero.
- Bill Compton: I find myself doubting whether you were ever truly human.
- Pam: [smiling] Thank you.
- Tara Thornton: I'm an excellent driver. But you can not prepare for a naked lady and a hog in the middle of the road!
- Buster: [about the waitress at the pie shop] You won't get nothin' from her. She only been here two weeks. Comes from three generations of dumb as rocks.
- Bunki Police Officer: [seeing Sookie's arm] Those vampire bites?
- Sam Merlotte: With all do respect, sir, that's none of your business.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I don't mean to tell you your business, but a vampire wouldn't kill by strangulation.
- Bunki Police Officer: Well, I guess you'd know. Good riddance to white trash is all I got to say.
- Sam Merlotte: I'm a simple guy.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [burst out laughing] What a load of horse pucky. Simple is one thing that you are not.
- Sam Merlotte: [in earnest] You love Bill?
- Sookie Stackhouse: I think I do. But where is he? If vampire politics are more important to him than me... I don't know... I'm so mad at him, I could spit.
- Bill Compton: [to Jessica] You drank from me. Your blood was replaced with mine. And then I shared my essence with you when we slept together in the ground.
- Jessica: [whining to Bill] You won't let me do anything and I'm so hungry! You are the worst maker ever!
- Tara Thornton: The first time I'm in trouble, you turn your back on the one person who's always stood by you.
- Sookie Stackhouse: I rescind your invitation!
- Bill Compton: [crushed] Sookie, don't. Please... Sookie. Please.
- Sam Merlotte: [after Bill has left] Can't you see what he's really like? I mean, how can you even think about being with him?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [distraught] Sam, my living room's wrecked! I've got a killer, a vampire and a shapeshifter on my plate. Right about now I'm not thinkin' about being with anybody!
- Eric Northman: [at Fangtasia, about Jessica] She's your punishment, not mine. What am I supposed to do with her?
- Jessica: Excuse me! I can hear you, mister rude! I wanna go to the bar. I wanna be one of those dancers. I'm hungry.
- Bill Compton: She won't listen to me! It will take more time than I have to teach her obedience.
- Jessica: I don't obey anybody! Those days are over.
- Eric Northman: Can't handle one little girl, Bill? New ones can be like this. Man up, my friend. She's not even one night old.
- Bill Compton: That is not the issue!
- Eric Northman: [to Jessica] You want to stay with you maker, don't you?
- Jessica: No, he's a dick! Dick, dick, dick.
- [Eric chuckles]
- Jessica: You're cute. Can I sit in your lap?
- Eric Northman: No.
- Jessica: [whining] Why? Nobody let's me have any fun. Fuckers!
- Eric Northman: Sit down and shut up! Close the door.
- [turning to Bill]
- Eric Northman: See, you have to be tough with them or they'll walk all over you.
- Bill Compton: I am well aware of that. But you see how she is and there are urgent matters to which I must attend!
- Eric Northman: Sookie Stackhouse? Haven't you done enough for her?
- Bill Compton: If any harm were to come to her because of my absense, you would be...
- Eric Northman: [leaning in intensely] What?
- Bill Compton: Without her helpful skills.
- Jessica: Let me out! I wanna do something bad!
- Bill Compton: I would be in your debt. I would return the favor.
- Eric Northman: Oh yes, you will. You most definitely will.
- Pam: You're a maker, you're a hero.
- Bill Compton: I find myself doubting whether you were ever truly human.
- Pam: Thank you.