Cami O'Connell quotes from The Originals

Marcel

(to Klaus) You compelled her to go out with me, didn't you? (to Cami) And I thought you really liked me.

Cami

So did I.

Klaus

Well, I mean, to be clear. I only compelled you to give him a chance. Anything you felt for him was quite real. And for the record, the level of awkwardness we're all currently experiencing is entirely genuine.

Marcel

(about the restaurant) You gonna open this place today?

Cami

And risk you eating the clientele?

Marcel

And here I thought you were starting to like me again.

Cami

(pushing him back down) Be a good little boy and get back into bed.

Klaus

(weakly) If I had a quid for every time a woman tried that line on me...

Cami

You'd have, like, no money.

Klaus

Oh, I beg to differ. Some women actually find me quite charming.

Cami

Not that that wasn't totally worth it, but it can never happen again.

Marcel

What if one of us craves another julep?

Cami

Tell me about the key.

Marcel

I thought you said you didn't want to know.

Cami

I'd like to say I slept on it, but I didn't sleep. I stayed awake all night next to the body of a hexed priest only to attend a funeral filled with vampires so I'm thinking you should tell me about the key.

Klaus

Camille, I appreciate you being here. But I cannot seek comfort in you. We cannot be friends.

Cami

What?

Klaus

You had me pegged from the start. A man damaged by his demons. Well those demons aren’t dormant, and they are hell-bent on killing me and everything beautiful around me….and you are beautiful.

Klaus Mikaelson

I have a rather long list of people of people I need to track down and deal with, and at the top of that list is is a certain runaway witch.

Cami O'Connell

Maybe she doesn't want to be found.

Klaus Mikaelson

And for good reason. Had I magically resurrected the insane vampire-hunting father of my sworn enemy, I'd be hiding, too.

Marcel Gerard

[entering the room] I bet you want a new adviser right about now.

Cami O'Connell

(about Vincent) Who is he, Marcel? I mean, really?

Marcel Gerard

Long story shot is... impossible.

Cami O'Connell

I checked the school website. Vincent Griffith has no other academic credentials. And, according to my Uncle Kieran's big book of New Orlean's bloodlines, Griffith is a family of witches.

Marcel Gerard

Oh, it's worse than that. Your therapist has a thousand-year-old dead vampire inside of him named...Finn Mikaelson.

Cami O'Connell

(in complete shock) My advisor is Klaus' brother? Oh God, Marcel! He came into Rousseau's today asking questions about Klaus, and ordered my favorite drink like he's been watching me. Why?

Marcel Gerard

Probably to get the scoop on Klaus. Or, maybe to use you as bait for a trap. I don't know. It doesn't matter. Either way, you're done with that guy.

Cami O'Connell

I'm just getting started.

Cami

I see you're still developing your taste for beer! My mom said beer wasn't lady-like, so I learned to love it as an act of rebellion. What about you? Snobby mom? Distant dad? Spill!

Finn

Well, my mother and I are quite close. She made so many sacrifices for us. Now, anything she asks seems negligible in comparison.

Hayley

Elijah and I have barely spoken since I became a hybrid. But, still, he is...

Cami

Under your skin? Well, there is no right answer to this. You just have to figure out what's best for you, and think long and hard about your decision, because you're the one who's going to have to live with it.

Hayley

No pressure.

Kol

(looking over Cami's back) That's Mom's work, all right. She must have wiped your memory.

Cami

Not the first time that's been done by a member of this family. What does it mean?

Kol

It's a byproduct of.... a preparation spell.

Davina

Preparation for what?

Kol

To make her a vessel.

Cami

Why me? Out of everyone in this city?

Finn

Because you're perfect. Healthy, beautiful, smart... and alone. No one would question any personality changes. And, as I discovered from my sessions, Niklaus would never allow you to be harmed.

Cami

(furious) Fix this!!! Do something to stop this!!

Finn

I can't... Only my mother can.

Cami

I will step in front of a moving truck before I let your mother take over my body.

Finn

She wasn't preparing you for herself, Cami. She was preparing you for Rebekah.

Cami O'Connell

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.

Elijah Mikaelson

So this is your solution. Mend the home, mend the man.

Cami O'Connell

Or we could go fishing, and I could tell you about the summer I lost my virginity.

Elijah Mikaelson

I'll mend the home.

Vincent

When I invited you to meet me I had no idea we were gonna have such a gorgeous guest. [Hope is in the bar with Cami] You have blood right there.

Cami

Oh, yeah... My dry cleaning bill has been insane since moving back into town. [Vincent pours drinks] Drinking in front of a baby. New all time low?

Vincent

You're the one who brought her into a bar. [Cami looks away] Ah yeah, I know that look. Sense of obligation. [They click glasses] Duty. What do you feel like you owe these people? [Cami rolls her eyes] You forgot, I have a few psychology degrees before the family you so wrapped up in stole my body.

Cami

So you're head-shrinking me now, is that it?

Vincent

No, I'm trying to figure out why a smart, level-headed woman such as yourself would choose to stick around a town that to my eyes seems to offer you nothing but danger.

Cami

I'm the last of my family line, the O'Connells' have a long legacy here.

Vincent

Don't feed me that legacy crap Camille. You wanna talk about legacies? My momma, her momma, and they daddy before them were some of the wickedest witches the west-side of this city has ever seen. And yet in still I'm able to walk away from magic because I know it's not good for me. Just like Nicklaus and his whole clan are not good for you, Camille.

Cami

So you're walking away? Huh? More like you're dumping your responsibilities on a teenager who doesn't know any better.

Vincent

She knows better. She knows - she knows a hell of a lot more than she should. And if she's not careful, she doesn't walk the right line, she's gonna end up being the wickedest of them all, mark my words.

Cami

Then why would you leave her without a teacher?

Vincent

[Smiles] Okay, fair enough, pick a fight, call me out, but... um, from one head-shrink to another, what is it that you're deflecting from yourself?

Cami

You wanna know why I stay in town?

Vincent

Yeah.

Cami

Because, against every ounce of my better judgement, my sanity, and my common sense, turns out I have complicated feelings for a monster.

Vincent

And does this monster have complicated feelings for you?

Cami

I think it's entirely possible that he does, yeah.

Vincent

[Drinks down the rest of his drink] We gonna need another bottle. [Cami chuckles]