[to Hayley] For all the poems written on the subject of unrequited love, there are so few on the pain of being the object of that affection. The truth is, Hayley, it's not love on which the strongest foundations are built. It's the decency of merciful lies.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
Finn, please. I fought it for as long as I could. Look at me. I am still your mother! I'm sorry! I was just so hungry!
You're a hypocrite. You speak of purification, of cleansing the souls of our family, and yet you cave to temptation rather than standing with your principles? It was your morality, mother, your conviction that awed me. That's why I stood by you. That's why I fought for you! I would have done anything for you, my mother, she who gave me life! Yes. But I know that she would want from me to finish what we started.
[to his parents] We were a family once. I remember the love between you, how happy you were that I was your son. I remember the day that we lost our Freya and how we never got that happiness back. I remember it all. You should have stopped there. Instead, you had them, the monsters you call children, and for that, you will all pay.
You are not leaving this bloody house, Marcel!
My enlistment papers say otherwise. They call them the Harlem Hellfighters. Boat leaves tomorrow.
Is this lunacy because I forbid you to be with Rebekah? So now you're going off to fight the Germans. Fine. Go, but remember, Marcel, this is your home. I am your family, and if you haven't learned that in the century since I took you in, then learn it now! Family are not just people who coddle you, who grant you your every whim. They are people who fight for you, who you fight for, and if this family endeavors to stop you from making a tragic error of the heart, then, by all means, express your discontent, but what you do not do is abandon us! [beat] Fine. Go. You'll be back. The prodigal son always returns home.
We are family. Family is not determines by blood but by who you fight for and who will fight for you.
Anything good on?
[watching TV] These paintings can move. They depict a rodent breaking the bones of a rather tenacious feline.
Those are just cartoons.
Speak the devil's name, et cetera, et cetera.
You don't know a damn thing about being a wolf.
No. I don't. I never had the luxury to live among my kind nor the chance to truly know my father, but you knew him. Perhaps he saw in you the son he always wanted. I'm glad I was spared such a sorry fate.
Mary, I am so sorry.
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For what, knowing a monster, having baggage in your past? We all got that, some worse than others. When Jack was down, you fought for him. Lot of married folk never get that far.
[to Klaus] You absolutely will not believe the week I've had.
I know this wedding can work. We can bring our little girl home. But you have to trust me.
I do trust you. More than you know. (breaks Hayley's neck) Just I don't trust Jackson.
[on a painting of her] That is just not my chin, Nik. It was much more delicate.
The only delicate thing about you, sister, is your ego.
When placed beside the behemoth size of yours, certainly.
This spell that Finn cast to lock you in your body, do you remember it?
Well, I was a little distracted by the murdery part.
In cases like yours, sometimes not dwelling on the problem is more productive than examining it through the minutia of therapy, staying mentally busy instead of physically. This house, though charming, is completely falling apart.
So this is your solution. Mend the home, mend the man.
Or we could go fishing, and I could tell you about the summer I lost my virginity.
I'll mend the home.
Oh, you're angry, are you? Well, join the party! I've been here a thousand years! I was building that dagger to protect myself against you, Nik. I'm not the bad guy in this chapter of our family's story. I'm the wronged; I'm the dead but never mourned, and whilst you got everything that you wanted, I got a family who didn't care if I lived or if I died.
Oh, shut up! [shoves Kol against wall] We've all suffered! We've all been wronged!
Go on! Go on and finish it off! Go on and kill me!
[drops Kol] I'm not gonna kill you, you idiot! Despite your behavior, you're still my brother.
Yeah… just the one you dagger repeatedly.
I've daggered all of you! Each for you own good! If you don't agree with my motives, fine - I never claimed to be the bastion of temperance but stop this drivel about being singled out and unloved. You are a Mikaelson! You're my blood. And I need you… I need you by my side.
What does it even mean, Nik? Hmm? You talk about family; family this, family that. I haven't earned the right to share your secrets, have I?
No, you haven't. But by all means, brother, prove yourself. It's not too late.
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