You know, I've lived under the shadow of my father's actions for far too long now.
MMilah
Just because your father was a coward doesn't mean you are.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Why are you so nervous? When I found my mom, I was excited.
Because I have the benefit of a little more... life experience. I know that things don't always happen the way we want them to.
Sure. But in my book, it says that you can see the future. Why can't you just look and see what's going to happen?
Well, that ability is complicated. I didn't always have it. And then when I did, well … it's maybe not the gift one would expect. Seeing the inevitable can be a terrible price.
But you wouldn't have to worry about stuff. You'd just know.
But that's the great trap. The future is like a puzzle. With missing pieces. Difficult to read. And never, never what you think.
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?!
Think about it. He wanted you to break the curse. Us meeting... That could've stopped it. Maybe it was fate.
You believe in that?
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.
SThe Seer
[after Rumplestiltskin takes her powers] As gratitude, I offer you one piece of the puzzle. You will be reunited with your son. And it will come in a most unexpected way.
How?
SThe Seer
A boy. A young boy will lead you to him. But beware, Rumplestiltskin, for that boy is more than he appears. He will lead you to what you seek. But there will be a price. The boy... will be your undoing.
[The Seer collapses and dies]
Then I'll just have to kill him.
Listening to your mother is a mistake, Regina.
Because listening to you'll work out so much better!
You're dying. And right now, we are your best hope. Time's come for you to start trusting someone. And if I were you, I'd start with family.
Please don't leave me.
QEQueen Eva
As long as you hold the spirit of goodness in your heart, I shall never leave you.
[speaking to Queen Eva's corpse] You raised her well. My daughter doesn't love me the way yours does you. Snow would've been a great ruler someday, but that'll never happen because my daughter will be queen. And all yours will be left with is knowing how I've felt... how it feels to be the miller's daughter. I'll turn Snow White's heart black as coal. That candle won't be her final test. And once I've darkened her soul, it won't just be you I've destroyed. It'll be your legacy.
KXKing Xavier
You're just a miller's daughter.
I am so much more.
I can't cast a spell. I can spell "spell."
You can. It's in you.
Well, how? Here? Like from my brain?
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.
Mr. Gold. I told you before... I don't remember you.
I know, I know. It's just… Sweetheart, I'm… I'm dying.
Oh. I'm … I'm so sorry.
I know that your confused about who you are. Now I'm going to tell you. You are a hero who helped her people. You are a beautiful woman who loved an ugly man. Really, really loved me. You find goodness in others, and, when it's not there, you create it. You make me want to go back. Back to the best version of me. And that never happened before. So when you look in the mirror and you don't know who you are, that's who you are.
[after Regina returns her now-cursed heart into her chest] This would have been enough. You... you would have been enough.
KFKurt Flynn
Who are you? What is this place?
Name's Graham. I'm the sheriff. Welcome to Storybrooke.
How do you do it?
Do what?
Live with yourself, knowing all the bad things you've done?
Well, you tell yourself you did the right thing. And, if you say it often enough, one day you might actually believe it.
Cora is a very dangerous women because she doesn't have a heart. Regina is even more dangerous because she does.
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