Miranda Hamilton quotes from Black Sails

Miranda Hamilton

True love shouldn't require suffering.

Miranda Hamilton

Great men aren't made great by politics. They aren't made great by prudence or propriety. They are, every last one of them, made great by one thing and one thing only: the relentless pursuit of a better world. The great men don't give up that pursuit; they don't know how.

Miranda Hamilton

[to James] Thomas, he sees only the principle. The right. It's inspiring. It can be intoxicating. It's why I love him. But you, you see the world as it is. You see its truths and how to navigate them. How to bend them to your will. It's why I love you. Men like Thomas need men like you to protect them from the world, and that is what I am asking you to do.

Miranda

I'm sorry. You know I would never intentionally put you in any kind of danger.

Flint

What was your intent? What was it? To destroy everything we've tried to build here for the past ten years? Or was it just to embarrass me?

Miranda

To show you a way out of all this. To free you.

Flint

A way out? Have you no memory of how we got here? What they took from us?

Miranda

What does it matter now?

Flint

What does it matter?

Miranda

What does it matter what happened then if we have no life now? Because there is no life here, there is no joy here, there is no love here!

Flint

What are you talking about? What do you think I'm out there fighting for if not to make all those things possible here?

Miranda

You'll fight a war so we can make a life?

Flint

You don't get one without the other, my sweet.

Miranda

No. You're wrong. I sent that letter to show you that you're wrong. There is a life in Boston. There is joy there, and music, and peace. The door is open. I've opened it for you. And it requires no war and no blood and no sacrifice.

Flint

It requires an intolerable sacrifice.

Miranda

To accept a pardon?

Flint

To apologize.

Miranda

Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to?

Flint

To England. They took everything from us. And then they called me a monster. The moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right. This ends when I grant them my forgiveness. Not the other way around.