King Francis quotes from Reign

You're very quiet. Are you warm enough?

Queen Mary

(Chuckles) I just wish that we could go back to two months ago, do it all over. Me in my wedding gown, walking down the aisle to you at Notre Dame.

But instead, we have to come back to reality. That's what you're thinking.

Queen Mary

(Sighs) Politics, backstabbing, murder. Just another day at French Court. Francis, can we turn around and go back to the country house at Anet? Everything we felt there alone, far away from Court. Somehow, our love seems so fragile suddenly.

Things are different now... we're married, the future King and Queen. My mother is no longer an obstacle.

Queen Mary

Mhm...

Nostradamus's prophecy no longer a threat. And Bash is far away in Spain.

Queen Mary

I hope he's safe, and that he finds happiness.

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.

Perhaps you are not your father after all.

As long as I'm never given a reason to be.

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.

Sebastian

And Mary?

She can never know. She must be able to deny, on oath before God, that she knew anything. It's the only way to keep her safe.

Princess Claude

How did Bash and Kenna get together?

It's a very romantic story, actually. Father threatened to kill them both if they didn't marry.

Do you think he was convinced?

Sebastian

I'm not sure I want you to be king anymore.

What's Mary doing here?

Queen Catherine

She's looking for her rapist. And if you don't catch him soon, that's what she'll be doing for the rest of her life. In every room and in every crowd.

You need me!

Nobody needs you!

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

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.

All he needed was his father's arms.

Lady Lola

Or the poor thing finally exhausted himself.

Well, I like my story better.

I don't want you to feel so alone.

Queen Mary

But I am alone. We both are.

We don't have to be.