The Best Godric Quotes

Warrior: [in old Swedish to a dying Eric, on the funeral pyre] All will be well. Don't be afraid.
Eric: [weakly] I'm not afraid. I'm pissed off.
Warrior: [hearing rushing noises] Who's there? Show yourself!
[is promptly killed along with Warrior 1]
Eric: [seeing a boy with ancient Roman tattoos] Are you Death?
Godric: I am.
Eric: You're just a little boy.
Godric: I'm not.
Eric: My men?
Godric: Dead.
Eric: You swine!
Godric: I watched you in the battlefield last night. I never saw anyone fight like you.
Eric: I would fight you now if I could.
Godric: [almost laughing] I know. It's beautiful.
Eric: What are you waiting for? Kill me.
Godric: Could you be a companion of death? Could you walk with me through the world? Through dark? I'll teach you all I know. I'll be your father, your brother, your child.
Eric: ...What is in it for me?
Godric: What you love most... life.
Eric: [considering] ... Life.

Godric: [to Rev. Steve Newlin] I daresay my faith in humankind is stronger than yours.

Godric: Do you believe in God?
Sookie: Yes.
Godric: If you're right, how will they punish me?
Sookie: God doesn't punish, God forgives.
Godric: I don't deserve it, but I hope for it.
Sookie: We all do.

Godric: [on the roof with Eric] Two thousand years is enough.
Eric: [unbelieving] I can't accept this. It's insanity!
Godric: 'Our' existance is insanity... we don't belong here.
Eric: But we 'are' here!
Godric: It's not right. We're not right.
Eric: [stepping forward] You taught me there was no right or wrong. Only survival or death.
Godric: I told a lie, as it turns out.
Eric: I will keep you alive by force!
Godric: Even if you could, why would you be so cruel?
Eric: [begins crying blood, in Swedish] Godric, don't do it.
Godric: [in Swedish] There are centuries of faith and love between us.
Eric: [crying; in Swedish] Please, please!... Please, Godric!
Godric: [in Swedish] Father... brother... child...
[in English]
Godric: Let me go.
Eric: [stops crying, breathing deep] I won't let you die alone.
Godric: Yes, you will.
[Eric gets to his feet as Godric rests a hand on his shoulder]
Godric: As your maker. I command you.
Sookie: [Eric walks to the stairs, she reaches for him and he turns to her] I'll stay with him. As long as it takes.
[Eric leaves]

Godric: [about his burning] It won't take long. Not at my age.
Sookie: You know it wasn't very smart... the Fellowship of Sun part.
Godric: I know. I thought it would fix everything some how. But I don't think like a vampire anymore... Do you believe in God?
Sookie: Yes.
Godric: If you're right, how will he punish me?
Sookie: God doesn't punish. God forgives.
Godric: I don't deserve it, but I hope for it.
Sookie: We all do.
Godric: You will care for him? Eric.
Sookie: I'm not sure. You know how he is.
Godric: I can take the blame for that too.
Sookie: [smiling softly] Maybe not. Eric's pretty much himself... Are you very afraid?
Godric: [gleeful] No, no. I'm full of joy.
Sookie: But the pain?
Godric: I want to burn.
Sookie: [starts crying] I-I'm afraid for you.
Godric: [blissful] A human with me at the end and human tears. Two-thousand years... and I can still be surprised. In this I see God.
Sookie: [watches as he turns towards the sun and removes his shirt, holding his arms wide] ... Good-bye, Godric.
[watching as he goes up in blue flames]

Godric: [catching her by the throat] Retract... your fangs. Now. I neither know or care who you are. But in this area and certainly in this nest, I am the authority. Do you understand?
Lorena: Yes sheriff.
Godric: [about Sookie] This human has proven to be a courageous and loyal friend to our kind. And yet you treat her like a child does a dragonfly. Pulling off wings for sport. No wonder they hate us.
Lorena: She provoked me.
Godric: And you have provoked me. You have disrupted the peace in my own home. I could snap you like a twig and I haven't. Why is that?
Lorena: It's your choice.
Godric: Indeed it is. You're an old vampire. I can tell. You've had hundreds of years to better yourself, yet you are still a savage. I fear for us all, humans and vampires, if this behavior persists.

Stan: 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: Murderer!
Stan: [to the other vamps] Destroy all of them.
Godric: [as the vamps swarm the church] Enough! You came for me, I assume. Underlings?
Stan: 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: [seething] 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]
Godric: Good people, who of you is willing to die for this man's madness?
[met with silence]
Godric: 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.

Godric: I'm sorry. I apologize for all the harm I've caused, all our lost ones, human and vampire. I will make amends. I swear.
Nan: ...Take it easy. It's just a few signatures.

Godric: I'm actually older than your Jesus. I wish I could have known him, but I missed it.
[grabs Steve Newlin by the back of the collar]
Godric: Good people, who of you are willing to die for this man's madness?
[No one steps up]
Godric: That is what I thought.

Nan: [to the vampires in attendence] Do you have any fucking idea of the PR mess you've made? And who has to fucking clean that up? Me, not you, Me. We should drain everyone of you bastards.
Eric: Stan went to the church on his own. None of us knew anything about it.
Nan: Oh really? Because everyone who met Stan in the last three-hundred years knew that he had a kink about slaughtering humans. But you, his nest-mates, his sherrif has no clue.
Isabel: And how were we supposed to know that this time he meant it?
Nan: Not my problem. Yours.
[to Godric]
Eric: [seething] Don't talk to him like way.
Nan: [to Eric] Don't talk to me that way!
[to Godric]
Nan: Lets get to the point, sheriff. How'd they manage to abduct you?
Godric: They would've taken one of us sooner or later. I offered myself.
Nan: Why?
Godric: Why not?
Nan: [pinched] They wanted you to meet the sun and you were willing?
Godric: What do you think?
Nan: I think you're out of you mind and than I hear about a traitor?
Godric: Irrelevant. Only a rumor. I'll take full responsibility.
Nan: You bet your ass you will!

Eric: Why wouldn't you leave when I first came for you?
Godric: They didn't treat me badly. You'd be shocked at how ordinary most of them are.
Eric: They do nothing but fan the flames of hatred for us.
Godric: Let's be honest. We are frightening. After thousands of years we haven't evolved. We only grow more brutal, more predatory. I don't see the danger in treating humans as equals. The Fellowship of the Sun arose because we never did so.
Eric: Is that why you wouldn't fight when they took you?
Godric: I could have killed every last one of them with in minutes. And what would that have proven?

Jason: I just wanna say I'm real sorry for what the Fellowship put you through.
Godric: You helped save many lives today, Mr. Stackhouse. Please know you have friends in this area when ever you visit.
Jason: Thanks, but I don't know I'll be wantin' to come back any time soon.

Godric: A human with me at the end. With human tears. Two thousand years and I can still be surprised.

Godric: [in Old Swedish] I'll be your father, brother, son

Godric: [to Eric] You are a fool for sending humans after me.
Eric: I had no choice. These savages... they seek to destroy you.
Godric: I am aware of what they have planned.
[to Sookie, about Hugo]
Godric: This one betrayed you.
Sookie: He's with the Fellowship. They set a trap for us.
Eric: [to Godric] How long has it been since you fed?
Godric: I require very little blood anymore.
[an alarm sounds in the church]
Godric: Save the human.
[to Sookie]
Godric: Go with him.
Eric: I am not leaving your side until you are...
Godric: I can take care of myself.
Sookie: Come on! We have to go.
Godric: Spill no blood on your way out. Go!

Isabel: [hauling Hugo in front of Godric] Here is the one who betrayed us.
Godric: Hugo... he is your human, is he not?
Isabel: Yes, he is.
Godric: Do you love him?
Isabel: [sobbing] I-I thought I did.
Godric: [looking between them] It appears you love him still.
Isabel: I do. I'm sorry. But you are my sheriff. Do with him as you please.
Godric: [to Hugo] You are free to go.
Stan: [furious] What?
Godric: The human is free to go...
[to Hugo]
Godric: And do not return. I fear it is not safe for you here.
Stan: This is a travesty!
Godric: This is my verdict.

Sookie: Are you very afraid?
Godric: No. No, I'm filled with joy.
Sookie: But the pain?
Godric: I want to burn.
Sookie: Well, I'm afraid for you.
[Sookie begins to cry]
Godric: A human with me at the end, and human tears. Two thousand years and I can still be surprised. In this, I see God.
Sookie: Goodbye, Godric.
[Godric walks toward the sun and burns away until there is nothing left]