- Matthew Clairmont: I took my mother's name when she sired me. She lived in France with my step-father, Philippe. He's no longer with us.
- Diana Bishop: He died?
- Matthew Clairmont: Mm. Yes. We can be killed... if you try hard enough.
- Miriam Shepherd: [about Diana] You're craving her.
- Matthew Clairmont: Miriam, how I feel about Diana Bishop has absolutely nothing to do with you.
- Miriam Shepherd: She's a witch, you're a vampire. You know the rules. It's forbidden by the terms of the Covenant.
- Matthew Clairmont: The Congregation isn't about to enforce a thousand-year-old rule.
- Miriam Shepherd: Does Diana even know about it? Because Marcus doesn't seem to think so.
- Matthew Clairmont: Are you off to the library?
- Diana Bishop: Yes.
- Matthew Clairmont: Well, you should know that it's absolutely full to the brim with creatures. Waiting to see if you can call the book up again. I thought we'd... Would you let me take you out for the day instead?
- Marcus Whitmore: [trying to be charming to Diana] I'll tell you what Matthew likes if you come to the lab and get your bloods done. We're taking DNA from witch remains and we've identified four original clans.
- Diana Bishop: What would I taste like?
- Matthew Clairmont: [very serious] Don't ever... say that... to me.
- Diana Bishop: I only ask to understand.
- Matthew Clairmont: It would take but a moment. You wouldn't be able to stop me if I struck and I wouldn't be able to stop myself.
- Diana Bishop: [rising from her chair and walking to him] I'm safe with you.
- Matthew Clairmont: [turning her around] The smell of you... It would take but a moment. You wouldn't be able to stop me if I struck and I wouldn't be able to stop myself.
- [inhaling her scent]
- Matthew Clairmont: willow sap... chamomile honey. Frankincense. Lady's mantle. Ancient things I thought I'd forgotten. It's not only your scent. I can hear your witch's blood moving in your veins. When I touch your skin and it rushes to the surface.
- Matthew Clairmont: I was born a human. We didn't keep track of birthdays back then. But I'd estimate it was in 500 and then I was reborn as a vampire in the year 537.
- Diana Bishop: The things you must have seen.
- Matthew Clairmont: Did you cast a spell to call up the book?
- Diana Bishop: No, No. No, I've never been very good at spell casting.
- Matthew Clairmont: Well, then perhaps there was a spell on it and you just happened to meet its conditions.
- Sarah Bishop: [over the phone, nearly yelling] What are you doing hanging around with a vampire?
- Diana Bishop: Has Em been spying on me? Anyway most of the things we've been told about them aren't true.
- Sarah Bishop: He could feed off you, take your memories.
- Diana Bishop: I'm sure that's not true.
- Sarah Bishop: That's what they do, Diana. He could have fed off you already. Seen everything you saw when you opened that book.
- Diana Bishop: I can deal with Peter Knox.
- Matthew Clairmont: Not yet, you can't. Your power is extraordinary, but it's undisciplined. You have to come to terms with it somewhere safe.
- Matthew Clairmont: [to Diana, about his house] Can't stay in the same place for too long. Humans tend to get suspicious, so I closed it up and left. But I've dropped by over the years. Updated the plumbing. Put in the electricity.
- Matthew Clairmont: [to Diana] Witch power is in your blood and it's in your bones. You were born to be a witch, just as you were born to have blonde hair. Or those blue eyes.