Mary Stuart quotes from Reign

And it won't hurt to show the nobles, many twice my age, that if you obey me, they can too.

Queen Mary

Are all powerful men so insecure?

A few. Many. Most.

There's plenty of time until then.

Queen Mary

Tell that to the people starving outside our walls.

Queen Mary

Do you worry that I can't bear you a child?

Yes! I worry because, as a king and a man, I want heirs.

Mary, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have. I wish...

Queen Mary

For something I can't give you.

Queen Mary

There's a physician in Beauvais who is celebrated for his knowledge of women's problems.

Queen Catherine

I assume you mean fertility, because other than that, no man has an inkling about women's problems.

Queen Mary

Francis has become distant. He doesn't share his problems with me like he used to. If this goes on, what will our marriage become?

Queen Catherine

Normal.

Louis of Condé

A minister much beloved by his flock. The people know nothing of the dire threat he has made. If the minister is killed, the people can use his death as justification for almost any bad act. They would create...

Queen Mary

A martyr.

Louis of Condé

And his death would inflame even the most pacifist of Protestants.

Queen Mary

I've had some time to think. I believe that we should lead separate lives.

What does that mean?

Queen Mary

That we will continue to work together as king and queen, but that I will be your wife in name only.

I can't do that. I won't.

Queen Mary

We wouldn't be the first people in history to do so.

If you're talking about my parents, we are nothing like them. I would do anything for you, Mary. I love you and you love me.

Queen Mary

Look where that love has brought us.

Queen Mary

I apologise for dropping in unannounced.

King Antoine

Nonsense, you were just announced.

Queen Mary

I feel like I'm sleeping walking and I can't wake up.

Greer Castleroy

If your heart wants to sleep, let it. Many things can be forced out of duty. But not the heart.

Queen Mary

What we once had was so natural. I miss how easy it was. We'd make love and fall asleep in each other's arms like branches growing together. We didn't have to think about anything and now it's so complicated. I don't know if I'm ready.

That's love, Cardinal. When you care more about someone else's suffering than your own.

Queen Mary

[Knock on the door] One more moment!

Greer Castleroy

One more moment, is that all we have?!

I don't want you to feel so alone.

Queen Mary

But I am alone. We both are.

We don't have to be.

How could you send me to another? How?!

Queen Mary

Because I love you. And one of us should be happy.

Queen Mary

You sound like Catherine.

Why she hasn't assassinated them while they're here at court is a mystery to me.