Yellow Diamond quotes from Steven Universe

Yellow Diamond

You think you can get away, Rose? You stood your ground on that little speck called Earth. But you're on our world now.

Yellow Diamond

When we thought Pink was shattered, when she abandoned us, I alone was there for you, and you would use your power against ME?!

This is the Yellow Diamond control room.

Amethyst

Is that another Pearl?

Steven

Who is she?

Not all Pearls know each other, Steven.

Who authorized you to make this call?

Peridot

No one. But it's an emergency!

That's no excuse to use the direct Diamond communication channel!

Yellow Diamond

Pearl?

Yes, my Diamond?

Yellow Diamond

Why is there someone on the diamond line?

I don't know! I was just about to tell her that…

Yellow Diamond

I'll take it from here. [brings the screen up to her eye level, revealing herself]

Amethyst

Is that…

Yellow…

Garnet

Diamond.

Yellow Diamond

Please tell me you're joking. You only just left, and you're already back?

Blue Diamond

Yellow. Wh-what are you doing here?

Yellow Diamond

I'm here to bring you back to reality, Blue.

Blue Diamond

I'm fine. Just leave me alone.

Yellow Diamond

It's been thousands of years, Blue, and you still bring yourself to destroy these Gems? She was shattered by a Rose Quartz! The entire cut of Gem deserves the same fate!

Blue Diamond

But they were hers.

Yellow Diamond

They should be wiped out of existence, not kept safe in bubbles!

Blue Diamond

Yellow, she made them. This is all we have left of her. These Gems, this place, and the Earth.

Yellow Diamond

I thought we agreed we need to put that planet and this whole debacle behind us.

Blue Diamond

Why can't you just let me grieve?

Yellow Diamond

You can't keep coming here forever!

Blue Diamond

Why not?!

Yellow Diamond

[sighs; to her Pearl] Pearl, do something. Sing for her. Make her feel better.

Yes, my Diamond. Ahem. [turns to Blue Pearl] Ahem!

Uh… Oh.

My Diamond. My gracious, wondrous, luminous, lustrous Diamond…sss? [gasps in surprise as she notices Yellow Diamond] Oh, my! It's truly an honor to bask in your radiance…ses.

Yellow Diamond

Get to the point, Agate.

[clears throat] Yes, of course. My deepest apologies. You'll be pleased to know that your Sapphire has completed your special delivery.

Blue Diamond

What special delivery?

Um, the special delivery you requested from Earth, of course.

Blue Diamond

I never asked any Sapphire to go to Earth.

Sapphire

I… Um… [nervously starts freezing up]

Steven

[whispering] Oh, no! She's freezing up!

Sapphire

My…future vision foresaw you, my Diamond, desiring more…humans for the zoo. So I…acted accordingly.

Blue Diamond

It's true. The window preserving Earth's specimens is closing.

Yellow Diamond

Is that what you want? Sapphire, has the Cluster emerged yet?

Sapphire

No, it has not.

Yellow Diamond

Then there's still time. That will be all. [claps twice]

[bows] My Diamonds.

Defending a rebel? Isn't that… treason? [chuckles]

Defense Zircon

I was assigned to this!

All rise for the luminous Yellow Diamond! [poses]

And the lustrous Blue Diamond. [bows]

Blue Diamond

[looking around] Where is the accused?

Yellow Diamond

[looks down at Steven] Is that Rose Quartz? Look at this hideous she's taken. Forget the trial, we should shatter just for looking like that.

Blue Diamond

No. I want to hear her make her case. I want to know what she thinks we're going to do with her. Because I want to do something worse.

Yellow Diamond

[warps in their throne chairs] Fine. Let's just get on with it, shall we?

Defense Zircon

Before I start my very... uh, thought-out defense, I'd like to remind the court that Rose Quartz did turn herself in.

Yellow Diamond

The court remembers, and the court does not care.

Defense Zircon

Uh, of course! Uh, in-innocent! Uh, the word innocent can mean, oh- many different things.

Steven

I did it!

Defense Zircon

Wha… What, what?! Stop!

Blue Diamond

No! I want to hear what she has to say.

Lars

[muffled] Get us out of here, Steven!

State your name for the record, please.

Steven

I, um… I am Rose Quartz… and I'm guilty.

Defense Zircon

Wait! No, don't say that!

Steven

Everything you guys said I did, I did. And I did it by myself. I'm sorry. I'll accept any punishment you want to give me. [points down to Lars] Just let him go! And leave the Earth alone.

Yellow Diamond

Ha! Sounds like a solid confession to me.

Blue Diamond

How? How did you do it? How did you shatter Pink Diamond?

Steven

[nervously] Um, well…I did it on Earth in front of Pink Diamond's palanquin. I was probably like "Stop!" And she was all like, "No!" So we fought -- I think. And she probably did some cool moves. I probably did some cool stuff, too, some jump-kicks and stuff. But I was most likely deeply conflicted about deciding to shatter her. Definitely crying. I probably had to use the Breaking Point to do it.

Blue Diamond

It was a sword! [covers her eyes, crying and a blue light fills the room, making everyone except Lars tear up] You… shattered her…with a sword! [starts sobbing]

Yellow Diamond

[walks up and comforts Blue; coldly to Steven] That's quite enough testimony from you! We shall take a short recess.

Defense Zircon

What are you saying in there?! "Maybe" this, "probably" that! Oh, what do you mean, probably?!

Steven

Look I just... I don't actually know how it happened, okay?

Defense Zircon

You don't know?!

Steven

I...

Defense Zircon

[grabs Steven by the shirt collar and picks him up] Don't tumble my rocks! Both our gems are on the line! Did you do this or not?!

Steven

It was me, alright! [Defense Zircon let's go of his shirt and drops him] Rose Quartz did it, and I've got her gem, so I'm the one who's got to pay for this.

Defense Zircon

You don't know how it happened. [Steven shakes his head] I get it. There's a reason they want you to explain how you did it.

Steven

Huh?

Defense Zircon

It's because it doesn't make sense!

Defense Zircon

Blue Diamond, for the purpose of this argument, may I present your palanquin?

Yellow Diamond

is this necessary?

Blue Diamond

Isn't it? Please, proceed. [waves up her hand, warping in her palanquin]

Defense Zircon

Now, as the records show, Pink Diamond was shattered just outside a palanquin, much like this. Witnesses said, Pink had stepped out and had only taken a few steps forward when Rose attacked her from the front. The question no one seems to be asking is… How?

Blue Diamond

I've been asking that question.

Peridot

Ha! I told her off, once. I can do it again. [jumps off Bismuth's hands and runs up to her] Hey! Yellow Clod! REMEMBER ME?!

Yellow Diamond

No. [zaps Peridot and poofs her to her gemstone]

Steven

Stop! [jumps off Garnet's hands and runs up to the Diamonds] Don't do this! Listen to me, I'm the one you're missing! I'm Pink Diamond!

Yellow Diamond

[shocked and enraged] You! [charges towards Steven as he summons his shield]

Garnet

Steven!

Yellow Diamond

[through her thoughts] How miserable. I knew Pink couldn't handle her own colony. But, I gave in. And now, I'm to blame for her fate.

Steven

Ah, her thoughts are too strong!

Blue Diamond

[through her thoughts] What good will any of this do? The more I make these Gems suffer, the more I long to see you again, Pink.

Blue Diamond

This feeling, I know it!

Yellow Diamond

It must be a trick! Show yourself, foe!

Steven

I'm not your foe. Please, just listen to me!

Yellow Diamond

There!

Steven

[through his thoughts in a pink aura] Please, the fighting has to stop. We're not enemies. We're family! Please listen to me. I need you to know who I am!!!

Blue Diamond

Impossible.

Yellow Diamond

This aura...

Blue Diamond

It's you! Pink!

Garnet

We can't just hand Steven over to Blue Diamond, she's a shatterer!

Bismuth

She's not gonna hurt him, look at her. She really thinks he's one of them.

Amethyst

[sobbing loudly] Somebody make Blue Diamond stop!

Connie

Are you guys okay?

Pearl

It's just… [sniffles] Blue Diamond's power. She's obviously relieved that Pink Diamond wasn't shattered after all.

Yellow Diamond

Hmm. How could you do this to us, Pink? Why did you let us think you were shattered? Why the strange disguise? Why are you doing a voice? Why didn't you say something at the trial?! And Blue, could you please stop crying? I can't see. [wipes her tears, splashing the Gems]

Blue Diamond

Sorry. [sets Steven down]

Steven

My mom kept it secret from everyone.

Pearl

Ahem.

Steven

Almost everyone.

Yellow Diamond

What are you talking about?

Steven

Well, apparently, Mom… Oh, geez. You don't know what a mom is. Okay, Pink Diamond took the form of Rose Quartz permanently after faking her shattering. Then, Rose Quartz gave up that form to create a new life with my dad-- me. Rose passed her gemstone and some of her powers onto me, but that's all. I-I don't have any of Pink or Rose's memories. I'm sorry.

Yellow Diamond

Hmm. I'm sure your memories are in there somewhere, Pink.

Steven

Actually, I go by "Steven."

Yellow Diamond

We can only do so much, if it was the four of us.

Blue Diamond

Oh, no. We can't let her see this!

Steven

Who? Who do we need?!

Yellow Diamond

What do you mean, "who?" White.

Pearl

[shocked] White Diamond?

Amethyst

What?!

Pearl

Steven, White Diamond isn't like us. She isn't even like them. [gestures to Blue and Yellow Diamond] You have no idea what she's capable of.

Steven

Should I have brought a gift for White Diamond? We are dropping in unexpectedly, and… I want to make a good first impression. Her help will mean everything for the Corrupted Gems.

Pearl

Steven...

Yellow Diamond

Hmph. "Good impression"? We'll be lucky if she ever speaks to us again after this.

Steven

But...

Blue Diamond

The thing is, White... can be... difficult.

Yellow Diamond

When we show up in this ship, it will be irrefutable that the last 6,000 years are now the biggest galactic embarrassment that's ever happened. And we're the ones to blame. (to Steven) If you don't want to be in a bubble for the next few millennia, I suggest you let me do the talking.

Pink Diamond.

Steven

Please, call me Steven.

Pink Steven.

Steven

No, just Steven.

Just Steven.

Steven

Call me... Lasagna.

Steven, stop. You're going to break her. [opens the extraction chamber door]

Have a nice extraction, Pink Lasagna.

Yellow Diamond

Pink.

Steven

Hi, Yellow. Cool sauna.

Yellow Diamond

It's new. Have a seat. [Steven uses his floating powers to jump up and takes a seat] So, you met with White. How was it?

Steven

All I got to say was, "Hi," and, "um," and, "I."

Yellow Diamond

Two and a half words -- that's a record.

Steven

Two and a half words isn't enough. I still need to talk to White about healing all the corrupted Gems!

Yellow Diamond

Hmm. Good luck. White never leaves her own head these days, and she never lets anyone in -- except you, I guess. It's so unfair. I have hundreds of successful crystal system colonies, but you get to see her because your one colony is a failure!

Steven

Maybe you should just… fail?

Yellow Diamond

[looks momentarily shocked, then starts laughing] Oh, Pink, you always did have quite a knack for making me laugh. You're almost worth the trouble.