[Eric hesitates because with Sookie here, he would've agreed with that statement. He'd thought it more than once. He'd even expressed it in different words in conversation. However, despite the mess that his world is in back home, despite the fact that he is preparing to let Sookie go back to being that girl in the white dress, to having a life without him, at least his world has Sookie in it. At least there he has his own cocky belief that Sookie will come to her senses one day. He knows that somewhere never far away there is a girl in a white dress that is capable of falling in love with him. He doesn't have that there. He has to keep it in his heart, to borrow Caroline's idea. He doesn't know if that's enough to be more than the man who kept humans changed in the basement. Godric had told him and shown him that humanity in a monster was possible, but Sookie had given him a reason to want to be more than a monster. ]
I don't know if that's enough. [ yes and on any other day, it would be an image that would give Eric a good chuckle, but the truth is he needs protecting most of all from himself. Caroline could be just the person to do that. ]