Emma Swan quotes from Once Upon a Time

Mr. Gold

What can I do for you?

Emma

What you can do is tell us what you did.

Mr. Gold

I'm sorry, you're gonna have to be more specific.

David

You know damned well what we're talking about.

Mary Margaret

You double-crossed Emma, you took your potion from her...

David

And did who knows what to this town.

Emma

And worst of all, you risked Henry's life.

Mr. Gold

Well, that is quite a list of grievances, now isn't it?

Emma

Maybe I don't need answers. Maybe I just need to punch you in the face.

Mr. Gold

[Laughs] Really, dearie?

Mulan

Have you ever seen an ogre?

Emma

I'm pretty sure I've dated a few.

Leaving is unwise. The Enchanted Forest is not as you remember it. The ogres have returned.

Emma

Ogres? Like, as in "Fee-fi-fo-fum"?

Mary Margaret

Those would be giants.

Emma

Don't you have a family?

No! Because humans killed them all.

Emma

You really think we're gonna make it back?

Mary Margaret

If there's one thing your father's taught me, it's not to give up.

Emma

Your mom. She's a piece of work, you know?

Regina

Indeed I do.

Emma

You hurt Belle.

Hook

I hurt his heart. Belle's just where he keeps it.

Emma

Are you telling me that us meeting was a coincidence? How the hell did that happen if it wasn't in your plan or your father's?!

Neal

Think about it. He wanted you to break the curse. Us meeting... That could've stopped it. Maybe it was fate.

Emma

You believe in that?

Neal

You know, there's not a ton I remember about my father that doesn't suck. But he used to tell me that there are no coincidences. Everything that happens happens by design... and there's nothing we can do about it.

Emma

I can't cast a spell. I can spell "spell."

Mr. Gold

You can. It's in you.

Emma

Well, how? Here? Like from my brain?

Mr. Gold

Just try. [Emma starts to concentrate her thoughts] Stop thinking! Conjuring magic is not an intellectual endeavor. It's emotion. You must ask yourself: "Why am I doing this? Who am I protecting?" Feel it. [Emma has a visionary experience and successfully casts a protection spell] Oh, yeah, you feel it.

Emma

What are you thinking?

Neal

What do you mean?

Emma

I mean, what are you going to tell her when she sees a giant or a werewolf run past her down Main Street? Between Greg Mendell, our food-obsessed tourist, and now your fiancee...this town is turning into a theme-park!

Emma Swan

Where's Henry?

Peter Pan

You've got fire. I like fire.

Hook

Tell me something, luv. In these stories, what was I like? Other than a villain. Handsome, I gather.

Emma Swan

If waxed mustaches and perms are your thing.

Hook

I take it that perms are bad?

Emma

That look in his eyes, the despair, I had it. Back when I was in the foster system. Just a lost little girl who didn't matter. Who didn't think she ever would. A little girl who cried herself to sleep every night 'cause she wanted her parents so bad and could never understand why they gave her up.

Mary Margaret

And then you found us. And it was too late.

Emma

It's just on this island, I... I don't feel like a hero or a savior. I just feel like what I've always been. An orphan.

Hook

What's our next stop on this mission?

Neal Cassidy

Dark Hollow.

Emma Swan

Really? Why couldn't it be called something like Sunshine Valley or Rainbow Cove?

Emma

Sure you don't have other reasons for pushing me toward Neal?

David

Like what?

Emma

I don't know. Keeping me away from Hook?

David

You think I'm interested in Hook? Emma, I'm a married man.