Elijah Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Klaus

I forgot how much I liked this town.

Elijah

I didn't forget. All the centuries we've spent together, and yet I can count on one hand the number of times that our family has been truly happy. I hated leaving here.

Klaus

As did I.

Elijah

What is on your mind, brother?

Klaus

(determined) For a thousand years, I lived in fear. Any time I settled anywhere, our father would hunt me down and... chase me off. He made me feel powerless, and I hated it. This town was my home once, and in my absence, Marcel has gotten everything that I ever wanted. Power, loyalty, family. I made him in my image and he has bettered me. I want what he has. I want to be king.

Elijah

And what about Hayley and the baby?

Klaus

(resolute) Every king needs an heir.

Marcel

What do you care about the witches?

Elijah

Well, that's my business, now isn't it?

Sophie

If I have to hurt Hayley, or worse, to ensure that I have your attention, I will.

Elijah

You would dare threaten an original?

Sophie

I have nothing to lose.

Rebekah

(looking around) What is all this?

Elijah

You don't remember? We went to the opera house together. It was your first full day back into New Orleans' society after Klaus removed the dagger from you. It's a memory that only you and I share.

Elijah

I will fight for my family until my last breath.

Davina

And I'll fight the witches until mine.

Davina

You don't look well.

Elijah

Well, only this morning I had a mystical dagger embedded in my chest. So, I'd say I'm holding myself together quite well.

Davina

You're the one they call honorable.

Elijah

Yes, that's what they call me. And yet, I followed my brother here to New Orleans to engage in a war. So, I ask you: does that sound honorable to you?

Davina

You don't look well.

Elijah

Well, only this morning I had a mystical dagger embedded in my chest, so I'd say I'm holding myself together quite well... Davina, I believe that you and I have the power to end a war between witches and vampires before it truly begins. I, by keeping my brother in line; you, by behaving like your true self—not some tool for Marcel or the witches.

Davina

Any why should I trust you?

Elijah

Well, for one thing, in spite of a ravenous hunger, I have not tried to take your blood.

Elijah

So, enlighten me. What did you mean when you said you had to die?

Davina

That's what the Harvest was. They said they'd put us four girls in a state of, like, peaceful limbo as part of the offering. And then later, at the Reaping, we'd awaken and be reborn. I never got as far as the limbo part, which means the Harvest isn't complete. That's why the witches are so freaked out. The Reaping is just around the corner, and if they don't finish it before then, it's over. All I have to do is wait it out.

Davina

You'll keep your promise about my mother's spell book?

Elijah

I will. You know, difficulties aside, I value my family above everything. I am sorry that yours failed you.

Davina

You brother, Klaus handed you to Marcel in a box, yet you still don't give up on him?

Elijah

Well, I've given up on giving up. It's an affliction. I will fight for my family until my last breath.

Elijah

Forgive me. Thought you were in danger. It appears I was mistaken.

Hayley

You will not believe the crap day that I'm having.

Klaus

You do realize they can hear you.

Elijah

You do realize I don't care.

Hayley

Why are you trying to put together your family when it's so clear that one part of it is broken?

Elijah

The definition of the word broken suggests that something can be fixed.

Hayley

Remind me to annihilate your brother once you're healthy.

Elijah

(fighting his fever) Yes. Remind me to remind you to get in line.

Elijah

You don't make it easy to love you, brother.

Klaus

And yet you are obstinate in your desire to do so

Elijah

(about Hayley) I'm not trying to impress the girl.

Rebekah

Well I should bloody hope you are. Why else are we out here? (plantation house) Come on, Elijah. You've fallen for her. Admit it. It may do wonders for the stick that's lodged up your enduringly stoic ass if you did.