Once Upon a Time quotes

Snow

You. You found me.

Charming

Did you ever doubt I would?

Snow

Truthfully, the glass coffin gave me pause.

Charming

Well, you never have to worry. I will always find you.

Evil Queen

My gift to you is this happy, happy day. For tomorrow, my real work begins. You've made your vows. Now I make mine. Soon everything you love, everything all of you love, will be taken from you. Forever. And out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness... if it is the last thing I do.

That a good book?

Henry

This? It's more than just a book.

Snow

What do you know?

Rumplestiltskin

The Queen has created a powerful curse... and it's coming. Soon you'll all be in a prison, just like me, only worse. For your prison, all of our prisons, will be time. For time will stop and we will be trapped someplace horrible where everything we hold dear, everything we love, will be ripped from us while we suffer for all eternity, while the Queen celebrates victorious at last... No more happy endings.

Grumpy

A tree? Our fate rests on a tree? Let's get back to the fighting thing.

Mary Margaret

As we build our birdhouses, remember what you're making is a home, not a cage. The bird is free and will do what it will. This is for them, not us. They're loyal creatures. If you love them and they love you, they will always find you.

Emma

How is a book supposed to help?

Mary Margaret

What do you think stories are for? These stories? The classics? There's a reason we all know them. They're a way for us to deal with our world. A world that doesn't always make sense.

Mary Margaret

Look, I gave the book to him because I wanted Henry to have the most important thing anyone can have. Hope. Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing.

Henry

You don't have to be hostile. I know you like me, I can tell. You're just... pushing me away because I make you feel guilty. It's okay. I know why you gave me away. You wanted to give me my best chance.

Emma

How do you know that?

Henry

The same reason Snow White gave you away.

Emma

Listen to me, kid. I am not in any book. I'm a real person. And I'm no savior. You were right about one thing, though... I wanted you to have your best chance. But it's not with me.

Henry

I knew you'd believe me!

Emma

I never said I did.

Henry

Why else would you be here?

Emma

Just tell me something. This fairy-tale obsession. What's causing it? I mean, he thinks everyone is a character in his book. That's crazy.

Archie

I hope you don't talk that way in front of him. The word crazy is quite damaging and these stories… they're his language. He has no way to express complex emotions, so he's translating as best he can. This is how he communicates. And he's using this book to help deal with his problems.

Evil Queen

What must I do to enact this curse?

Rumplestiltskin

You need to sacrifice a heart.

Evil Queen

I sacrificed my prize steed.

Rumplestiltskin

A horse? This is the curse to end all curses. You think a horse is going to do? Great power requires great sacrifice. The heart you need must come from something far more precious.

Evil Queen

Tell me what will suffice.

Rumplestiltskin

The heart of the thing you love most.

Evil Queen

I just want to be happy.

You can be. Of this I'm sure. I believe, given the chance, we can find happiness. Together. But the choice is yours.

Emma

The fact that you have now threatened me twice in the last twelve hours makes me want to stay more.