The moment Condé became your lover, he needed to die. Even he understood that.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Ruling requires that your hands be drenched in blood.
I want to remember you all like this. As the girls we once were. I hope you'll remember me that way, too. Oh, such dreams we had. I believe they can still come true.
It's terrible. Especially if we think we can save each other. We can't. We can only love each other.
Catherine de Medici. What a pleasure to meet one so legendary. Common lore is that your teeth are filed into points and your eyes are black with rage. And yet here you are, as lovely as a sunny day... You radiate warmth and beauty yourself. Though I know that you are personally responsible for the death of nearly a thousand men in France, just this month alone. My son was nearly one of them... Oh, you mustn't listen to gossip.
Men don't like taking orders from women. They can barely stand speaking to them.
You hurt me to please your lover!
Elizabeth's real war is with me.
Let me hold you in my arms, Elizabeth, or let me leave court.
I need you near, to see you, even if I can't touch you.
I am going to marry you. And I can promise you that it is not a mistake, because we are right for each other. You don't see it, but I do. And I am prepared to wait until you see it, too.
William Cecil: You must rule your own heart as firmly as you rule your subjects.
I am their queen. Their whispers are treason.
I am paying the price! I feel like a prisoner.
Some prison.
It's hard for all of us, being part of this family.
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