Esther Mikaelson quotes from The Originals

Esther Mikaelson

[to Elijah] I told you to clean yourself up, that if you were clean, no one would know what you are or what you'd done. And you did exactly that, and more. You created a place in your mind to put your victims. You began to believe that as long as your suit was immaculate and your hands clean, you could look in the mirror and tell yourself it's all okay. No one need know what's behind that red door. But a thousand years is a long time, Elijah. And a place meant to hold one unforgivable sin is now full to bursting with your most monstrous deeds.

Esther Mikaelson

[to Klaus] A thousand years ago in a fit of rage you grabbed your bare hands around my neck and squeezed until I died. Do you even remember why?

Esther Mikaelson

We are a macabre echo of a family, and I take all the blame for that.

Klaus Mikaelson

You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength.

Esther Mikaelson

I kept you from becoming a beast for as long as I possibly could.

Klaus Mikaelson

Oh, you lied to me to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life, I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated! Look at me! You rant, and you rage about the monster I've become, but you, mother, you are the author of everything I am.

Esther Mikaelson

I have come to heal our family, Elijah.

Elijah Mikaelson

Well, that's a grim sentiment coming from you.

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.

(in reference to the bloody symbols on his arm) Remind me to teach you how to send a text message.

Esther

You were told to get the white oak stake days ago. We need it now... seeing as your father has risen.

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.