You think Narcisse is manipulating me?
I think you're a beautiful, ambitious, young woman who's learned to pull the strings of men, and yet can't see when her own strings are being pulled.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
No one understands loss until they've felt it.
We are married because I couldn't take England without you. What makes you think that you can take England without me?
I'm the queen of England. I represent something glorious for everyone. And if you want to banish every person who is dazzled by me, we'll be a nation of mainly women. And even then our ranks may be depleted.
Select one of these marginally acceptable creatures, or risk losing the backing of Spain, and your throne along with it!
You've put a sea between us. You didn't have to send me to a three-year-old's birthday party in Prague to do it.
He will hang. And I will enjoy watching him die.
I've missed you. Perhaps that's reason enough for you to stop being an ass and stay for the party.
Though I have to hide it from narrow minds, I won't deny myself the feeling it brings. Power, excitement, pleasure. Liberation from a world determined to tell me who to be. I am who I am. I want what I want. And I take what I want. If that scares you, if it repels you, then you're with the wrong man.
You are more precious to me than my nation, and if I could give up England for you and survive, I would.
I will always, always be yours.
Everyone will pay in their own way.
Mary, revenge is not meant to ease pain. It is meant to balance the scales.
Have you been well?
I've not been in a dungeon, as you have.
Leeza, my child, oh, it's been so long.
Spare me the pleasantries, Mother. I'm not here to see you.
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