Mary Margaret Blanchard quotes from Once Upon a Time

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.

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.

Mary Margaret

Even if you can't admit what you did, I forgive you anyway. Your life must be filled with such incredible loneliness that your only joy comes from destroying everyone else's happiness. It's so sad, Mayor Mills, because despite what you think, it won't make you happy. It's only going to leave a giant hole in your heart.

Mary Margaret

[seeing the ruins of Emma's nursery] I was going to teach you how to walk in here. How to talk. How to dress for your first ball. You never got to do any of it. We never got to be a family.

Mary Margaret

I killed Cora. She sensed my presence and found a way to bleed through into our world.

Mary Margaret

I've had eight hours of sleep in the last week, I am breastfeeding, and I am exhausted! I don't need this. I may have cast a little curse, but I did not ask to maintain a metropolitan electrical grid. And, get this, I am starting to get why Regina was evil. It wasn't her! It was you! You have survived your entire lives without lightbulbs! Buy a flashlight!

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.

Henry

You're the one that woke him up. You're the last one he saw. He wants to find you.

Mary Margaret

Henry, it's not about me. I just think he's lost and confused. He's been in a coma a long time.

Henry

But he loves you! You need to stop chasing him and let him find you.

Rough day?

Mary Margaret

I don't feel like talking.

Come on. Sometimes it's easier to talk to someone when you don't give a crap what they think.

Mary Margaret

You ever walk into a situation where you know exactly what's going to happen, and then you go into it anyway and then when what you're afraid of happens, you kick yourself because you should have known better. But that's just who you are... so you keep punishing yourself.

Emma

I want to show him that good can actually win.

Mary Margaret

That's why you want to win it for him, but why do you want to win the election for yourself?

Emma

That is why. I want to show him that a hero can win, and if I'm not a hero and I'm not the savior, then what part do I have in his life?

Mary Margaret

He comes here every morning at 7:15 A.M. to get coffee.

Emma

For him and his wife.

Mary Margaret

I know, I know, I know. I just like to come here to see him.

Emma

So you're a stalker.

Mary Margaret

No, not really. Maybe a little bit. I mean, it's not like I'm following him. I just know that he spends his mornings with Kathryn, gets coffee, drives to the animal shelter to start work at 7:30 and then he's home by 5:00.

Emma

Oh... Is that all?

Mary Margaret

Thursdays, they pick up Chinese for dinner.

Sometimes doing a bad thing for a good reason is OK, right?

Mary Margaret

Yeah. I mean, maybe you're doing something wrong, but... If it's what's meant to be, if it's what's right, does that really make you a bad person?

Mary Margaret

I know it's hard, but we have to tell her the truth about everything. About us.

David

I don't know if I can.

Mary Margaret

But you have to. If we can't be honest with other people, how can we be honest with each other?

Emma

Covering your tracks isn't exactly your strong suit.

Mary Margaret

I've been discreet!

Emma

Two teacups in the sink, perfume, late nights, plunging necklines... It wasn't hard to connect the dots.

Mary Margaret

Plunging?

Emma

When I met you, you were a top button kind of girl.

Emma

So, what the hell is Miner's Day and why are you beating yourself up over it?

Mary Margaret

It's an annual holiday celebrating an old tradition. The nuns used to make candles and trade them to the miners for coal.

Emma

Coal? In Maine? If they were mining for lobster, I'd understand.