- Eric Northman: [in Swedish] Vår lilla djurpark börjar växa till sig.
- [Our little zoo is starting to grow]
- Pam: Jag vet.
- [I know]
- Bill Compton: [points the gun at the state trooper's face] Now, you listen to me, officer. I do not take kindly to you shining your light in the eyes of my female companion. And as I have more than 100 years on you, I do not take kindly to you calling me "son". So the next time you pull somebody over on suspicion of bein' a vampire, you better pray to God that you're wrong. Because that vampire may not be as kind to you as I'm about to be. I'm not gonna kill you. But I am gonna keep your gun. Does that sound fair?
- Tara Thornton: School is just for white people looking for other white people to read to 'em. I figured I save my money and read to myself.
- Hoyt Fortenberry: [in his thoughts] Crying shame is what it is. This place ain't gonna be the same without Dawn. She had the prettiest nicest smile. Why was I so scared to talk to her? Now I'll never know what her voice sounded like. I bet it sounded like angels and parakeets mixed together.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [while driving to Fangtasia] Penny for your thoughts?
- Bill Compton: I thought you liked not knowing what I'm thinking.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Most of the time I do.
- Bill Compton: You won't care for it.
- Sookie Stackhouse: That doesn't mean I don't wanna know.
- Bill Compton: [looking at her clothes than back to the road] You look like vampire bait.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [laughing] What's that supposed to mean?
- Bill Compton: I promised your grandmother no harm would come to you at Fangtasia tonight. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to keep that promise with you dressed like this.
- Sookie Stackhouse: So are you sayin' you think I look nice?
- Bill Compton: Doesn't matter what I think. This isn't a date. Remember?
- Hoyt Fortenberry: [about Dawn] I don't get it. She was so pretty.
- Arlene Fowler: Well, maybe it was just her time.
- Rene Lenier: [scoffing] Ahhhhh! She was only 23 years old. Ain't no 23 year old in the world whose time has come.
- Lafayette Reynolds: You a dizzy motherfucker. I said one drop, two max, and you took the whole thing.
- Arlene Fowler: [laughing, after her argument with Rene] If all our conversation end with them saying 'fine', why do they bother puttin' up a fight?
- Tara Thornton: Race may not be a hot-button issue it once was, but it's still a button you can push on people.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [after pulling him outside of Merlottes] You know my friend who works here, Dawn? Some one killed her last night.
- Bill Compton: How?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Say you're sorry.
- Bill Compton: Excuse me?
- Sookie Stackhouse: You wanna learn to fit in with people, you gotta say you're sorry. You don't even have to mean it. Lord knows they don't most the time.
- Bill Compton: [trying] I am sorry.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Thank you. Anyway, I'm the one who found her. Strangled. Cops think it was my brother.
- Bill Compton: Was it?
- Sookie Stackhouse: No, he's not capable of it.
- Bill Compton: I've been around long enough to know just about anyone is capable of just about anything.
- Sookie Stackhouse: He didn't do it. So I've been listenin' in on peoples' thoughts, hopin' I might hear somethin' to clear him and apparently there's this vampire bar where Maudette and Dawn use to hang out at in Shreeveport. You know it?
- Bill Compton: Fangtasia.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Fang-tasia?
- Bill Compton: You have to remember that most vampires are very old. Puns used to be the highest form of humor.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Well I was thinkin' if I went there, I could do some sniffin' around. You think maybe you could take me?
- Bill Compton: [smiling slightly] How 'bout tonight?
- Sookie Stackhouse: The sooner the better. I just gotta tell Sam I'm leaving and run home and change.
- Bill Compton: Meet you there.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Thank you. Bill, I'm asking you this as a friend, okay? This is not a date.
- Bill Compton: Fine.
- Sookie Stackhouse: It's not a date. I'm serious.
- Bill Compton: [still smiling] As am I.
- Eric Northman: So, Bill. Are you quite attached to your friend.
- Bill Compton: She is mine!
- Sookie Stackhouse: Yes. I am his.
- Eric Northman: Well, what a pitty... for me.
- Pam: [as he walks up to Fangtasia with Sookie] Bill. Haven't seen you in a while.
- Bill Compton: I'm mainstreamin'.
- Pam: Good for you. Who's the doll?
- Bill Compton: Pam, this is Sookie. Sookie, this is Pam.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [smiling, extending her hand to Pam] Pleased to meet you.
- Pam: [just looks at her] Can I see your ID?
- Sookie Stackhouse: Oh. Sure. How funny. Who'd have thought? Getting carded at a vampire bar.
- Pam: I can no longer tell human ages. We must be careful we serve no minors... in any capacity.
- [looking at her id]
- Pam: Twenty-five, huh? How sweet it is.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Jason, you look me in the eye and you tell me the truth. Did you kill Dawn?
- Jason: What? No. Jesus, Sook. Look, when Maudette died I thought I might of done it, and it turned out I didn't. With Dawn, I don't even think I might have done it, so I know I didn't.
- Bill Compton: [with Sookie at Fangtasia] You able to pick anything up?
- Sookie Stackhouse: [looking around] All anyone's thinkin' about here is sex, sex, sex!
- Bill Compton: One needn't be telepathic to pick up on that.
- Bill Compton: [looking at Eric and back down at his drink] Uh oh.
- Sookie Stackhouse: Don't say "uh oh". Vampires are not supposed to say "uh oh".
- Bill Compton: It's Eric. He's scanned you twice. He's goin' to summon us.
- Sookie Stackhouse: He can do that?
- Bill Compton: Oh, yeah.
- Sookie Stackhouse: [at Fangtasia, looking around] Who's that?
- Bill Compton: Oh, you noticed him did you?
- Sookie Stackhouse: No, it's not like that. I just...
- Bill Compton: Everyone does. That's Eric. He's the oldest thing in this bar.
- Tara Thornton: [staying with him as the doctor's about to stick him with a needle] I ain't never gonna be the same after this.
- Jason: [extremely worried] You're not?
- Sam Merlotte: You think maybe I should... shut down the bar for the day?
- Sookie Stackhouse: All that'd do is deny people a good, stiff drink on the day they could use it the most.
- Jason: [really worried] I think I might'a OD'd.
- Tara Thornton: Oh, my God. On what?
- Jason: V.
- Tara Thornton: You're doin' V now?
- Jason: It was my first time.
- Tara Thornton: Where on earth did you come across V in this town?
- Jason: Lafayette.
- Tara Thornton: My cousin is dealin' vampire blood now? God damn idiot. Well, at least that explains why I walked in on you dancin' around in that Laura Bush mask yesterday, 'cause I gotta tell you, without a reason, that was some fucked up shit! All right, let me see it.
- Jason: Huh?
- Tara Thornton: How long have you had the erection?
- Jason: Well, how do you know?
- Tara Thornton: Um, I read. You're not the first vain-ass, body-conscious ex-jock to overdo the V and wind up with an acute case of priapism!
- Sookie Stackhouse: [inside Fangtasia] This feels a little bit like what a vampire bar would look like if it were a ride at Disney World.
- Bill Compton: Well, don't get too comfortable. It tends to get more authentic as the night wears on.
- Lafayette Reynolds: Ain't no antidote to V, boyfriend
- Jason Stackhouse: When my grandpa was alive, he had gout. And he said just the weight of a sheet on his big toe was too much to bear. So help me God, that's exactly what this feels like.
- Lafayette Reynolds: Maybe you should try rubbin' one out.
- Jason Stackhouse: Were you listenin' to me?... I got gout of the dick!