Bill Compton quotes from True Blood

[entering the sanctuary with his vampires] Steve Newlin! You have pushed us too far. You expect us to sit on our thumbs while you round up your men to come lynch us? We'll kill you first. Same way we did your father.

Sookie

Oh god, no.

Steve Newlin

Murderer!

[to the other vampires] Destroy them, all of them.

Godric

[from the top altar, as the vamps swarm the sanctuary] Enough! You came for me, I assume. Underling?

Yes, sheriff.

Godric

These people have not harmed me. You see we can coexist. Mr. Newlin, I do not wish to create blood shed when none is called for. Help me set an example. If we leave you in peace, will you do the same?

Steve Newlin

I will not negotiate with subhumans! Kill me. Do it. Jesus will protect me.

Godric

I am actually older than your Jesus. I wish I could have known him, but I missed it. [to the armed congregation] Good people, who of you is willing to die for this man's madness? [silence] That's what I thought. Stand down, everyone. People, go home. It's over now.

Sookie

Oh, thank god. Bill?

Bill

It's alright. You're safe now.

Lorena

[walking up to Sookie] Hello there. I'm Lorena.

Sookie

Nice to meet you, I'm Sookie.

Lorena

Hmmm, yes. You're what all the fuss is about.

Sookie

Excuse me?

Lorena

Aren't you a morsel.

Sookie

I'm sorry. Who are you?

Lorena

Well, we have a mutual friend.

Sookie

Bill?

Lorena

That's right. Funny he never mentioned me. I practically made him what he is today.

Bill

[walking into the room] Lorena!

Lorena

Oh, hello darling. I was just getting to know your plaything. You always did like to prey on the innocent.

Sookie

Bill, is this your maker?

Bill

She released me years ago. She no longer has any hold over me.

Lorena

Oh I wouldn't say that. We had two marvelous nights in your hotel room.

Sookie

What?

Lorena

Did you know your boyfriend hit me over the head with a fifty-two inch plasma screen television earlier tonight? Everyone always says they're so thin and light. But let me tell you when wielded properly, it's quite a weapon.

Sookie

[to Bill] You did?

Bill

Lorena, you need to leave!

Lorena

[to Sookie] I hope he doesn't pull the same shenanigans with you. There's no excuse for domestic violence.

Bill

What she has failed to mention is that she was holding me prisoner!

Lorena

[chuckling] Cha! We were just catchin' up, is all.

Bill

[to Sookie as she sucks bullets from Eric] What are you doing?

Sookie

[spitting out a bullet with blood] I sucked silver out of Eric's chest and saved his life, even though I really didn't want to.

Eric

[reclining on the floor]...She was superb.

Bill

Eric was in no danger.

Sookie

W-what?

Eric

A tiny falsehood.

Bill

He was already healing. The bullets would've pushed themselves out. This way he's... forced you to drink his blood.

Sookie

No! No! No!

Bill

You're connected. He'll be able to sense your emotions.

Sookie

[to Eric] You big lying a-hole.

Eric

Bill, you're right. I believe I can sense her emotions. [Sookie smacks him in the chest and runs to Bill]...Sweet.

Sookie

[to Eric] I'll never do anything for you again! Monster!

Bill

[to Sookie] It's not your fault.

Eric

I think I'm gonna cry.

Jason

I'm goin' to Merlotte's and find out what the hell's happenin' on my turf!

Bill

Jason, if it is the same creature we think it might be, you don't wanna go any where near it. Trust me.

Jason

Mr. Compton, I ain't about to sit back and let some monster destroy my town.

Sookie

Jason, this would be one of 'those' times to use your head.

Jason

Oh I am. I ain't never been so clear in my whole life. This here, is the war I've been training for.

Maryann

[catching Bill and Sookie] What are you doing in my house?

Sookie

This is not your house!

Maryann

It is now.

Bill

I strongly suggest you remove yourself immediately!

Maryann

My! You found yourself quite a specimen. Though I dare say there's nothing stopping him from one day leaving you cold.

Sookie

You don't scare me.

Sookie

I've know Tara my whole life and every trace of her was gone. Replaced. And here I thought vampires were the only one's who could hypnotize people.

Bill

No offense Sookie, but humans are shockingly susceptible to just about every form of thought manipulation.

Sookie

It's all comin' from Maryann. All of it. She-she eats people's hearts and she wants more. She wants their souls and that chant...

Bill

Chant?

Sookie

Lo lo Bromios, lo lo Dendrites, Eleutherios, Enorches, Bacchus.

Bill

[very serious] Bacchus!

Sookie

Bill... I've seen that look on your face before and I don't like it.

Bill

I read about some ancient creatures many years ago. But I always assumed it was just a myth. But I believe Maryann might be one.

Sookie

What is she and more importantly, how do we kill her?

Bill

I do not know how to defeat her, but I do know one vampire who might.

Sophie-Anne

Maenads are sad, silly things. The world changed centuries ago and they're still waiting for the God who comes.

Bill

Does he ever come?

Sophie-Anne

Of course not. Gods never actually show up. They only exist in humans' minds, like money and morality.

Bill

If I can't kill her, how do I get her to leave Bon Temps?

Sophie-Anne

She has to believe that she successfully summoned forth Dionysus in hopes that he will ravish her and quite literally devour her until she's lost into oblivion.

Bill

So she seeks death? The true death. The one thing she has evolved beyond.

Sophie-Anne

Ironic, isn't it? You know they're really not that smart, these maenads.

Bill

So how does she summon this non-existent god of hers?

Sophie-Anne

I never said he was non-existent. I just said he never comes. She believes if she finds the perfect vessel, sacrifices and devours part of him or her, plus surrounded by the magic of her familiars than her mad god will appear. At that point when she willingly surrenders herself to him...

Bill

That's the only point she can be killed.

Bill

That was really quite desperate of you: tricking her into drinking your blood, so that she became attracted to you.

Eric

Unlike you, who fed her your own blood the very night you met…

Bill

How do you know that?

Eric

So you're not denying it?

Bill

I was saving her life.

Eric

Isn't that convenient.

Bill

You've heard there's a maenad in our midst?

Sam

I'm familiar.

Bill

You are aware she is here because of you.

Sam

Something like that.

Bill

I need you and Sookie needs you to make this right.

Sam

If I thought it was as easy as givin' myself up to Maryann, I'd have done that by now and what's to say she's gonna stop at me? Killers just don't suddenly quit killin'. You oughta know that.

Bill

And standing by idly is not an option either. You must come with me.

Sam

Oh I'm not sure I wanna be doing that.

Bill

I'm not sure I'm giving you a choice.

Sookie

[after Bill proposes] Then why can't I say it? My heart's flying around in my chest - I can't even think straight. My life's inside out. With all that's happened I'm not sure about anything. I don't even know if I'm human!

Bill

What?

Sookie

Maybe I am some kind of freak. I've only met one other person in the world like me and who even knows where he is? And what happens when I grow old? And weak? And you're still the same, what then?

Bill

Sookie, I don't care about any of that. I want you just as you are.

Sookie

But I'm not even sure what I am!

Bill

Are you saying no?

Sookie

No I'm saying...I don't know what I'm saying. I need a minute to clean myself up. I'm sorry.

Bill

[after his fangs came out] Don't be afraid.

[trembling] Are you afflicted?

Bill

I am... I was... My human life was taken from me.

Are you a ghost?

Bill

I an here to bury our son. You cannot be infected.

What are you?!? What are you?!? A-a demon? A devil?!You've taken my husband. I will not let you take my son!

Lorena

That was the best sex I've had in decades.

Bill

At least someone enjoyed it.

Bill

You have always so enjoyed making others suffer.

Lorena

And there is nothing wrong with that. Especially after having been made to suffer as I have been.

Bill

You haven't suffered at the hands of others for a very long time.

Lorena

You never embraced our nature!

Bill

Your nature?! It was never mine! I welcome death because only then will I be truly free of the disease that is you!

Bill

When this is over, let's begin again. We'll be new.

Sookie

Will we? I don't know. I don't know if people change, even when they try.

Bill

We can if we want to. Do you want to?

Sookie

You know I do.