The Originals (TV Series)

Reigning Pain in New Orleans (2013)

Joseph Morgan: Klaus Mikaelson

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• Elijah Mikaelson : You don't make it easy to love you, brother.

  Klaus Mikaelson : And yet, you are obstinate in your desire to do so.

• Klaus Mikaelson : [to Marcel]  At first, the promise of offspring meant little to me and I recalled my father and how he held me in contempt from the moment I was born. As yours did with you. I will not do to my child what was done to me.

• Marcel Gerard : [Klaus, about Cami]  You compelled her to go out with me, didn't you?

  [to Cami] 

  Marcel Gerard : And I thought you really liked me.

  Camille O'Connell : So did I.

  Klaus Mikaelson : [to Cami]  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.

• Klaus Mikaelson : [Toasting his guests]  Let us begin with a toast to our shared gift: immortality. After 1,000 years, one might expect life to be less keenly felt, for its beauties and its sorrows to diminish with time, but as vampires we feel more deeply than humans could possibly imagine. Insatiable need, exquisite pain, our victories, and our defeats. To my city, my home again. May the blood never cease to flow.

  Marcel Gerard : And the party never end.

• Klaus Mikaelson : [to Cami]  A thousand years of history isn't going to write itself.

• Klaus Mikaelson : When I order werewolves to be hunted to extinction, I expect you to stand to the side and let the blood flow.

  Elijah Mikaelson : How delightfully democratic of you.

• Klaus Mikaelson : I have had enough family to last me a lifetime. Why would I possibly want anymore?

• Klaus Mikaelson : [to Marcel]  This community that you've built, you have their respect, their love. I can rule them, but I cannot win them. Not without you. So rule with me, side by side, as equals, friends, brothers.

• Hayley : Those werewolves you ordered killed, that's my family.

  Klaus Mikaelson : Not for long, love.

  [Hayley mouths some appropriately derisive comment to herself] 

  Klaus Mikaelson : I mean, this so-called family of yours, they haven't done you much good, have they? You said it yourself. They abandoned you, left you on your own. Now it's simply your turn to do the same.

  Hayley : Maybe they had their reasons.

  Klaus Mikaelson : [rising from chair, obviously annoyed]  Yes, well, I have reason too, little wolf. If the werewolves are dead, then the vampires have less desire to kill you. I'm trying to keep you safe. Not that you're appreciating the effort.

  Hayley : And as soon as I have this baby, what happens to me then?

  [Klaus looks at her blankly, what a silly question she asked...] 

  Hayley : Right.

  [shakes her head] 

  Hayley : Well, lucky for me, I have a little time before I find out. And in the meantime, I will find a way to pay you back for this.

  [scoffs] 

  Hayley : As long as I am in the family way, well, you can't do a damn thing about it.