Smallville Season 1 quotes

Martha

[Concerned] You've hardly said anything about what happened at Summerholt.

Clark

[Distracted] Don't worry Mom, my secret is still safe.

Martha

Well, let me know if you want to talk about it.

Clark

Lara.

Clark

That was my biological mother's real name. She was my earliest memory. She sounded so scared. Her only fear was that nobody would love me.

Martha

I can't imagine the feeling of sending my baby in a lifeboat across the stars.

Clark

Because of Jor-El, I always thought that my biological parents were monsters. But she wasn't.... I just can't believe I forgot about her.

Martha

[Comforting] You didn't, Clark; your first word was "Lara". Your father and I could never figure out what it meant, but now we know.

Clark

I wish she could have met you, to see what a great mom I have.

Martha

She knows, Clark. A mother's love never dies.

Lex

Lana told you about my nocturnal adventure, didn't she? I can see I spooked her. That usually sends her running to you.

Clark

Are you okay?

Lex

Well, I haven't lost my mind, Clark, if that's what you mean. I just indulged in a little harmless sleepwalking, that's all.

Clark

Lex, you were on a ledge yelling Julian's name. You could've killed yourself.

Lex

You know, when I found you asleep in the middle of Route 8 last year, I don't remember questioning your mental health.

Clark

I hadn't just spent seven weeks at Belle Reve.

Lex

According to my doctors I'm cured. But apparently, a clean bill of health isn't good enough for Clark Kent.

Lex

Summerholt is a highly respected institution.

Lionel

Respected? Lex, this Garner character operates on the outer fringes of accepted science.

Lex

Well, then you should feel right at home.

I don't want to hold him.

Lionel

Lillian, it's unnatural for a mother not to want to bond with her child. Please... I will not let you inflict psychological scars on my children.

That's why they have you, Lionel.

Lex

I told you to let it go, but you kept pursuing it. You even involved my father.

Clark

Yeah, well, believe me, Lex. He's the last person I'd ask for help, but I didn't have any other options.

Lex

He betrayed you, Clark. He stopped my sessions with Garner by offering you up as a lab rat. I've tried to keep my father away from you, but he's obsessed. If I'd got back those seven weeks, I could've finally stopped him.

Clark

Maybe, Lex. Or maybe you'd make it worse. You're always telling me how you don't want to turn into your father, and I truly believe that. But the more you two go at each other, the more like him you become. And the more people get hurt.

Lex

I will never become my father. I would never sacrifice you or anybody I cared about to bring him down.

Clark

Lex.... why does your father hate you so much?

Pete

[on the phone] Why won't you listen to me? I told you I don't want to talk about it!

Chloe

Note to self: Forward all telemarketing calls to Pete.

Clark

Did you do this?

Lex

What possible reason would I have to ransack the office of an obscure teaching assistant?

Clark

Then tell me why you're here.

Lex

You first.

Clark

Jeremiah was gonna help me with a term paper.

Lex

Term paper. So your visit doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he went ballistic in the caves last night and absconded with a sacred Kawatche artifact.

Clark

I didn't know.

Lex

I'm surprised. I mean, you usually keep such a close eye on everything that happens in the caves... for those term papers you're always writing.

Clark

I know you want to believe it, but I'm not your savior. I mean, did you ever think that Jeremiah really is Naman? He has all the abilities foretold in the prophecy, and he's gonna try and kill Segeeth.

True. But he did not fall from the sky in a rain of fire. Jeremiah's desperate to be someone he's not. And you are desperate not be someone you are.

Clark

Professor, I may be confused about who I am, but one thing I'm not is a killer.

You'd be surprised what you're capable of when the time comes.

Clark

It also means the prophecy came true. The blade glowed and disintegrated when they touched it, which means either Lionel or Lex is my greatest enemy.

Martha

Did you see which one grabbed it first?

Clark

No. But I don't need a blade to tell me that Lionel Luthor is a bad person.

Martha

If you're going to believe this legend, you have to face the possibility that it could be Lex.

Clark

I'm not ready to do that.

Jonathan

Clark, the Kawatche think that you're a savior. Jor-El wants you to be a conqueror. Now, knife or not, you can't let other people tell you what to be.

Clark

Who do you think I'll become?

Jonathan

I don't know. You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story, is you.

Clark

You sound like Lex. He thinks I'm the reason Lana's leaving.

Pete

Well, I hate to agree with Uncle Fester, but I don't think Lana's going to Paris just to see the Mona Lisa.

Lana

Emily, you can't just force someone to be your friend. It's something that happens over time when you trust each other.

I know what a friend is. A friend is someone who would stand up for you and protect you. A friend is someone who would jump in a river to save you from drowning, even if it meant they had to give up their own life for you. You don't need to tell me what it means to be a friend.

Lana

Then you know that a friend would never keep me locked up in here.

Get used to it. I did.

Clark

What happened to you?

Pete

FBI agent decided to go off payroll, wanted to know about you. Don't worry, I didn't tell him anything.

Clark

I should have been there.

Pete

That's just it. You can't always be there. I gotta look out for myself. I just thought you should know they're onto you.

Clark

Thanks for the warning.

Pete

Clark, the FBI isn't who I'm really warning you about. Lex was there. He's the one who pulled the Fed off me.

Clark

He's investigating his father, not me.

Pete

That doesn't matter. He knows. Now, I'm not exactly sure how much, but he's not gonna stop until he's got everything. Clark you've got to keep an eye on him. Look out for yourself.

Pete

I'm moving to Wichita with my mom.

Clark

No, Pete. I thought that... What about senior year? Pete, you can't do this because of me.

Pete

I know that I told you keeping your secret wasn't hard. But I lied. I walk around every day afraid that I'm gonna slip up.

Clark

Well, why didn't you tell me sooner?

Pete

Because you needed a friend. And so did I.

Clark

You don't have to move away. You don't have to change your whole life. There's got to be a way. No one even has to know we're friends.

Pete

There's a lot of things that I can handle. But I could never live with myself if I betrayed you.

Lionel

"Forgive them for they know not what they do". Is that what you expect from me? Forgiveness?

Lex

Don't try to make me out as your own personal Judas. I didn't come here for forgiveness. I came here to congratulate you on sweeping another mishap under the rug. Emily Dinsmore.

Lionel

Ah, yes, Emily Dinsmore. I should've remembered. You should've warned them. Belle Reve has a habit of misplacing its patients. The details. I've always tried to teach you, Lex. The devil is in the details. If you don't pay attention to the details, he'll win.

Lex

Then it's a good thing I'm a fast learner. You went through all the trouble of having your own son committed to an asylum and shooting 600 volts of electricity through his body just to cover up your trespasses, but like I said, Dad, you've gotten careless.