Marcel Gerard quotes from The Originals

Marcel

(seeing her walk in) Rebekah Mikaelson. Come to teach me another lesson?

Marcel

Here's a lesson in friendship. Friends don't lie to me. They don't break the rules. And they do not steal what is mine!

Marcel

(to Rebekah) Interesting location to put down your roots, the same plantation where I was a slave. I guess that’s why you never invited me over.

Marcel

Those Orphan Annie vampires are my family, and this city is my home.

Marcel

(to Rebekah) If you think that I'd ever in a thousand years do anything to hurt you, then you got me confused with Klaus.

Marcel

(to Davina) One survivor to another. All I want to do is keep you alive. I swear.

Marcel

(to Rebekah) One little spell then we can finally be together for real, what are you waiting for?

Marcel

(to Rebekah) Your brothers came to town like they own the place, like they own me. They took my home, my people, everything. I can't just run away.

Marcel

(to his vampires) This is Thierry Vanchure. Mean-ass horn player, lover of feisty women, witch, vampire, and human alike. I rebuilt this city with him and he always had my back even when I screwed up and forgot to have his. And now all I can do is promise this, T. I won't let you die in vain. I will take back our city, even if I have to burn it down first.

Marcel

(to Hayley) Whatever happened in the bayou, I'm not your guy. But with the way things are going eventually I might have to be.

Marcel

(toasting at the wake) Kieran rolled into town on a rusty old Cruise after his daddy died 25 years ago. And damn, could that guy party. That was back before he took his vows, but even then, he was committed to the Quarter. He knew that this town needed him. And we still do. To Father K.

Marcel

(weakly) This is the last note in a song that I started a century ago, when I brought your dad to town. And for that I am sorry.

Marcel Gerard

Gia has proven herself. She knows what she's getting into. So she's gonna be the first one that I turn. Everybody else, first, I need to be sure that you can handle moving up a notch on the food chain, the emotional ups and downs, solitude, and bloodlust. Imagine hearing the sound of a heart beating, beating, beating and wanting more than anything to feed. That's what it's like to be a vampire. It's not for everybody. Some folks, well, let's just say, it brings out the worst in them.

Marcel Gerard

We are family. Family is not determines by blood but by who you fight for and who will fight for you.

Klaus

Your town?

Marcel

Damn straight.

Klaus

(staunchly) That's funny. Because when I left 100 years ago, you were just a pathetic little scrapper still trembling from the lashes of the whips of those who would keep you down, and now look at you. Master of your domain. Prince of the city. I'd like to know how.

Marcel

Why? Jealous? Hey, man, I get it. 300 years ago, you helped build a backwater penal colony into something. You started it, but then you left. Actually, you ran from it. I saw it through. Look around. Vampires rule the city now. We don't have to live in the shadows like rats. The locals know their place. They look the other way. I got rid of the werewolves. I even found a way to shut down the witches. The blood never stops flowing and the party never ends. You want to pass on through? You want to stay a while? Great. What's mine is yours, but it is mine. My home, my family, my rules.

Klaus

And if someone breaks those rules?

Marcel

They die. Mercy is for the weak. You taught me that, too. And I'm not the Prince of the Quarter, friend. I'm the king! Show me some respect.

Klaus

(bites a vampire) Your friend will be dead by the weekend. Which means I've broken one of your rules. And yet I cannot be killed. I am immortal. Who has the power now, friend?