Bill Compton quotes from True Blood

Jessica

Hi Daddy.

Bill

What is this?

Eric

There are favors, and there are favors.

Pam

She is extremely annoying.

Bill

You can't do this! We had a deal!

Eric

Yeah, well now the terms have changed. She's yours. Unless you want to give me Sookie...

Eric

[Eric laughs] It's just a suggestion. [Eric retracts his fangs] Though a few nights with this one may change your mind.

Pam

Good luck.

Eric

[in Swedish] O du ljuva frihet. (Oh sweet freedom)

Sookie

Did you have anything to do with Uncle Bartlett's death?

Bill

[hesitantly] He hurt you.

Sookie

Oh my God. Is it that easy for you to kill? Does human life mean so little, you can just kill on command? Toss someone in the water? I can't have people dyin' every time I confide in you. I never felt more inhuman than when I had to kill Rene. It still haunts me and now you've made me feel like I killed another person. I feel sick... I always thought as different as we are, somehow we can still be together. And now I don't know. I don't know anything... (whispering as she cries) Please say something, Bill. [silently walks to the door]

Bill

[appearing at the door to stop her] Sookie... I cannot and I will not lose you. For all the ways I have dismayed, aggrieved or failed you, I swear I will atone. But I am not sorry. I refuse to apologize for what you have awakened in me. You, you are my miracle, Sookie. For the first time in a hundred and forty years, I felt something I thought had been lost to me forever... I love you. And for that I will never feel sorry.

Sookie

[crying] God damn you, Bill Compton. I love you.

Bill

[to Jessica] Your bedtime will be at 4 a.m. and not a minute later.

Jessica

Whatever...

Bill

And whilst you're under my roof, hunting is completely forbidden...

Jessica

Like I'd know where to find people in this bumfuck town. Are we even in a town?

Bill

We also recycle in this house. [places a recycling bin and small garbage can in front of Jessica] Tru Blood and other glass items go in the blue container. And paper products go in the white container. [Bill's cell phone rings]

Jessica

Oooh! Can I have one of those?

Bill

No!

Sookie

"Where has she been tonight?"

Bill

"Here with me, and before that with Eric and Pam."

Sookie

"So there's no way she could have anything to do with the woman at Merlotte's with her heart missing?"

Bill

"No!... Probably not."

Sookie

We've never had 'make up' sex before.

Bill

How does it compare to 'you thought I was dead' sex?

Sookie

That was pretty great too, but I wouldn't want to go through that again. I hated feeling like I'd lost you.

Bill

Yet, you like fightin' me.

Sookie

I don't like to. I just...

Bill

Let's not get too used to it then. We don't want to be one of 'those' couples.

Sookie

You're right.

Bill

[to Sookie] Are you still angry about our fight? Sookie, none of that matters anymore.

Sookie

You're right. I'm alive and in one piece. Unlike my friend Lafayette who Eric chained up like an animal and left to bleed to death.

Bill

What?

Sookie

You better not have known anything about this, Bill Compton. Because if you did, I don't think I could ever forgive you!

Bill

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Eric

[behind them] I imagine she's referring to the human in my basement... The human who traded sexual services with a vampire in order to sell his blood - which as you know is a grave offense.

Sookie

[to Eric] His name is Lafayette and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to him. [slaps him]

Bill

Sookie!

Eric

I'm glad you're feeling better and may I add that color suits you very well. [referring to her red shirt]

Sookie

Go to hell!

Bill

[holding her back] Sookie! Enough!

Sookie

Oh it's not nearly enough. They've tortured him and bitten him and shot him and kept him down there in his own filth for weeks.

Bill

[to Eric] Is this true?

Eric

There are others who would have done far worse and you know it.

Sookie

You're gonna let him go right now or I swear, I'm going to the police.

Eric

[angry, draws his fangs] I do not respond well to threats!... But perhaps we could come to some sort of arrangement.

Bill

[to Sookie, about Jessica] You undermined my authority as her maker! You risked those people's safety and your own! If I had not glamoured them with in an inch if their sanity, both our lives would have shattered!

Sookie

I know. I'm sorry!

Bill

You keep sayin' that and I am expected to what? Forget this ever happened?

Sookie

What else do you want me to say? I know when she asked me to take her, I should say no. But all I could think about was Gran and what I would give to see her again.

Bill

That does not give you license to behave like an irresponsible child! She is a loaded gun, Sookie. Not a doll for you to dress up and play with!

Bill

What are you doing?

Sookie

Walking!

Bill

Don't be ridiculous. Bon Temps is nearly 20 miles away!

Sookie

[walking away] I'd rather walk all night then spend another second in that car with you!

Jessica

[to Bill, after he gets back in the car] She wants you to go after her. She wants you to go after her and kiss her and tell her that you love her.

Bill

She will come back, when she calms down... she will come back.

Sookie

[gasping, hurt] Am I dying?

Yes.

Bill

No! She cannot die! You will save her!

Back off, vampire. Let me do my job!

Eric

Forgive him. Bill is abnormally attached to this human.

Well, we don't have a lot of choices. She's been poisoned. You ever heard of Komodo dragons? Their mouths are teeming with bacteria. After one has bitten you it will track you for hours, days just waiting for the toxins to slowly eat away at your nervous system. 'Til you're good and helpless. Then it will devour you alive.

Sookie

I was... scratched by a dragon?

No, but this poison is similar but way more efficient. I don't think I've seen it before but it's hard to tell without further testing and we don't have that kind of time.

Sookie

I used to get so mad when people judged vampires just for being different. It's like they were judging me too. I told myself their fear was nothing but small mindedness. But maybe that's what I wanted to believe. 'Cause the more open my mind gets, the more evil I see.

Bill

Sookie, most of us, vampire, human or otherwise are capable of both good and evil. Often simultaneously.

Sookie

You can't expect me to believe that Eric is capable of anything good. Not after how he tortured Lafayette.

Bill

I have had worse sheriffs.

Sookie

I don't understand how you can defend him.

Bill

He saved your life.

Sookie

I can still hate him.

Bill

I hate that he maybe putting you in harm's way once again, for his own selfish reasons. And I hate that he has shown you the barbarousness we call justice. If I could glamour it away for you, I would.

Sookie

I'm glad you can't. I'm sick of things sneakin' up on me. Rene and what ever the hell that was that attacked me last night. If I'm never gonna be safe, I'd rather know what to be afraid of.

Bill

Well, after last night I hope that doesn't include me.

Sookie

I know there is evil in you. I know there is and it scares the hell outta me. But you're right. There's goodness in you too and when I look in your eyes, that's what I see.

Bill

Why this allegiance to Godric?

Eric

He is much beloved by his subjects.

Bill

Only kings and queens have subjects Eric. Not Sheriffs.

Eric

Godric could have been king of Texas had he wanted. He could have been king of any vampire territory anywhere. He is twice as old as I am and very powerful. There are none above him in the new world.

Bill

Well if he's so powerful, how could they abduct him?

Eric

Now that is what worries me. If one such as he can be taken by humans, then none of us are safe.

Bill

[after Hoyt leaves] We established there was to be no hunting in this house.

Jessica

I know you feel like shit because you had to make me and you should feel like shit! But guess what? I'd never kissed a boy before that. Meetin' Hoyt is the only good thing that's happened to me since... my whole new life started. No, I'm not ready for any thing to happen to fast. I-I'd been happy just to go on kissin' him all night long... Is it my fault my fangs come out when I get turned on? [realizes what that means and runs up stairs]

Sookie

I think I'm gonna like her.

Bill

Sookie, do not make the mistake of thinkin' you two can be girlfriends. She is...

Sookie

Yeah, I get it. She's a vampire. Believe me, I learned my lesson about that.

Bill

[waking up as she comes back to bed] I dreamed you were gone.

Sookie

You did?... That's funny, 'cause I was.

Bill

Sookie...

Sookie

It was only for a few minutes. I had to. Bill, it's the most amazin' thing. I met another telepath and he's not a vampire or very good at it. Oh, it's wonderful knowin' there's somebody besides me.

Bill

You made him aware of your gift after everything I've said?

Sookie

Not on purpose. We were in each other's heads before we knew it. I thought you'd be happy for me.

Bill

The more people know what you do, the harder it is for me to protect you.

Sookie

[about Barry] He can't even admit what he is to himself. He's not gonna do any talkin' about it.

Bill

You can't be sure.

Sookie

Yes, I can. I'm good at this. Look, if all we're supposed to do in Dallas is shut up and take orders, I might as well be slingin' beers at Merlotte's. You're the one who told me I was more than a waitress.

Bill

You are. But...

Sookie

What?

Bill

Never mind.

Sookie

Talk to me. Lean on me. I've leaned on you plenty.

Bill

Well, here I am responsible for you and Jessica. Yet no decisions are mine. It makes me feel...

Sookie

Like a human?

Bill

Like a waitress.

Sookie

You're walkin' in my shoes and it's givin' you blisters.

Bill

Eric is strangely intent about all this. It's not like him. I don't trust it.

Sookie

Don't you worry about Eric. We'll do the job and go home. A deal's a deal.

Bill

Sookie, you know what he's like. It's not like him to break a contract with a girl.

Sookie

A woman... he needs me. He won't wanna make me mad.

Bill

...I can't lose you.

Sookie

You never will.

You should have told me Eric hired a fuckin' human, Isabel.

Sookie

Now wait just a minute.

Bill

[about Sookie] Respect her!

Isabel

[to Stan] I couldn't tell you, Stan. You've been off on your own for days.

Eric

Are you certain Godric was abducted by the Fellowship of the Sun?

Isabel

No!

Yes! They're the only ones with the organization and man-power.

Isabel

But they're amateurs. It doesn't make any sense. This is Godric we're talking about. Two-thousand years old.

Old don't make you smart.

Isabel

Besides, there's no proof.

Sookie

If they've got him, I'll hear it. That's my job.

There's no reason to wait. We need to take these fanatics down. Full out attack. Exterminate them like the vermin they are.

Isabel

Hmm, vampire hating church annihilated. Wonder who did it? Fucking brilliant!

Bill

I doubt the king of Texas would approve of the destruction of our international political agenda.

Fuck that. The great revelation is the biggest mistake we ever made.

Isabel

Don't use Godric to make your own little power play.

Eric

You are completely incompetent! What's happened to Godric that he surrounds himself with clowns?

Isabel

We invited you as a courtesy. This is not your territory. You have no voice here.

Yeah, sheriff. Why don't you run back on down to Louisiana. We don't need you or your puppets.

Eric

I'm not going anywhere.

Sookie

I'm nobody's puppet!

I have a plan.

Isabel

It's not a plan, it's a movie!

Bill

If Sookie is hurt in any way because of you, I will not stop until I drive a stake through whatever semblance of a heart you have left.

Lorena

It's true. You're in love with a human. That's so tragic, it's funny. [laughing manically]

Lorena

[in 1935, shouting] I gave you everything! Everything and you've thrown it away, moaning over what you've lost. You disgust me.

Bill

Than let me go!

Lorena

No. I made you and you are mine!

Bill

You know I don't love you!

Lorena

You never tried.

Bill

I have spent decades tryin'! I despise myself for what I did for you! God help me. I killed innocent people to prove to that I loved you! But it was pure nihilism... I do not, I cannot, I will never love you.

Lorena

Men have readily laid down their lives to spend just one night with me. What more can I give? What is it that you want from me?

Bill

Choice... Let me go.

Lorena

With out me, you would be alone forever.

Bill

You're the one who's afraid of that. You are the saddest, loneliest creature I have ever known.

Lorena

How dare you! [throws him into the table] ... You hate me that much?

Bill

Let me go!

Lorena

[tearfully] I cannot live without you.

Bill

[putting the splintered wood to his chest] You'll have to.

Lorena

No! Don't!... As your maker... I release you.