Finn Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Finn Mikaelson

[to Klaus and Elijah] Do tell me, what'd I miss? Regale me with your contributions to society. Medicine, philosophy, art? Or have you two merely cut a path of destruction across time?

Finn Mikaelson

Change, dear brothers, is inevitable.

Finn Mikaelson

[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.

Finn Mikaelson

They're defiant by nature, and they've grown very strong. How do you expect to show them the error of their ways?

Esther Mikaelson

I will systematically destroy everything they hold dear. I've already taken the wolves from Niklaus and made them my own. It is time now to focus on the prodigal son Marcel and his small nest of vampires across the river. Now that we have cleansed the quarter of his kind, perhaps it's time to turn our attention to the outskirts of our beautiful home. We will take their pride, their joy, their love. We will lay it all to ruin, and when they are at their lowest point, in their deepest despair, they will have no choice but to beg me to release them from their pain, and because I love them, I will.

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

First, I'm going to kick your ass. Then, I'm going to take my pack back.

Finn

Your pack? Last I checked, your pack was blindly following me.

Hayley

You wanna talk about following? How do your mother's boots taste?

Kol

Elijah is off his bloody rocker. We need to get out of here... Are you gonna help me, or what?

Finn

If you were a little more clever, you would recognize that there is opportunity in our current circumstances.

Kol

Opportunity to what? Get a beating?

Klaus

(holding a pair of spelled-manacles) So, brother-- ready to embrace your new life of freedom?

Finn

I'm already free, brother.

Klaus

You're aware our mother cares nothing for you?

Finn

Niklaus, I assure you, my mother loves me. She loves all of her children. You would not exist without her sacrifice.

Finn

Do you even know the truth? That she was barren? And she grew so desperate for a family that she begged one of the most powerful witches in history for help. Her sister, Dahlia. Of course, Dahlia's price was high. She agreed to make our mother fertile, but in exchange, she sought the first-born as sacrifice. Having no other choice, our mother gave away our beloved Freya.

Klaus

(not believing) Our sister died of plague.

Finn

Esther gave her away. Think about that. The pain, the grief?

Klaus

If what you say is true, then death is far too delicate a fate for her.

Finn

She loves us more than you realize.

Klaus

And is love the reason she wanted my child dead?

Finn

She was trying to protect you from Dahlia's curse!

Klaus

(angrily shouting) What curse?!?

Finn

Dahlia demanded the first-born of every generation. Had your child lived, she would have paid the price! And, if anyone had tried to protect her, Dahlia would come and destroy us all.

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.

Esther Mikaelson

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!

Finn Mikaelson

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.

Finn Mikaelson

Look at you, brother. You're a mess, and, as we both know, untidiness is your undoing. Tell me, do your soiled clothes serve as a reminder of your filthy memories, your many sins? Are you having bad memories now, brother, perhaps of the innocent Tatia? Or any one of the other poor souls who met their fate at your hands? That's a shame, really, because, in a way, the child is just another one of your victims. Had you the will to stand against me, you might have saved her, but because she was left under the protection of a wretch, a beast that basks in the blood of others, she will die. I suppose your little niece never really had a chance. I'd ask for a response, but I wouldn't want to taint myself with the vulgar refuse that must, even now, be flashing through your mind.

Elijah Mikaelson

Let me assure you, my mind is quite clear. Much like the gas which has pervaded every single room in this home whilst you have been ranting like the lunatic that you are. You have disgraced this family for the last time. [removes his protective ring and places his arm in the path of sunlight] Good-bye, brother.