A Discovery of Witches (TV Series)

Episode #1.3 (2018)

Matthew Goode: Matthew Clairmont

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Quotes 

• Diana Bishop : What would I taste like?

  Matthew Clairmont : Don't ever say that to me.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.