Cinderella (New Enchanted Forest)/Quotes

## After Fourth Curse

### *Hyperion Heights* (Season 7, Episode 1)

**Ella**: My story. How does it end? Do the Prince and I just dance and live happily ever after?

**Henry Mills**: There's usually a complication before that. He has to find you.

**Ella**: How does he do that?

**Henry Mills**: In most versions, you leave him a sign. The glass slipper, which he uses to find the girl who fits it.

**Ella**: (*laughs*) That is ridiculous. Do you know how many girls have the same size foot as me?

**Henry Mills**: A plot hole, for sure.

**Ella**: And, uh, I don't believe in signs.

**Henry Mills**: (*at the ball*) You didn't come here to fall in love with the Prince, did you?

**Ella**: No, I didn't. I came here to kill him.

**Henry Mills**: Why would you do that?

**Ella**: 'Cause that "Prince" took everything from me. He killed my father, and I've been locked up sweeping floors ever since.

**Henry Mills**: You're gonna throw your life away for revenge? Once you kill him, they'll kill you. That's not a happy ending.

**Ella**: There is no happy ending for me.

**Henry Mills**: Maybe things are changing. Maybe me crashing into your carriage was a sign you can start over.

**Ella**: I told you, I don't believe in signs.

### *The Garden of Forking Paths* (Season 7, Episode 3)

**Ella**: You really do believe me?

**Princess Tiana**: Yeah, I know it was Lady Tremaine who killed the Prince.

**Ella**: How?

**Princess Tiana**: Because I didn't come to the ball to win the Prince's hand. I came to keep an eye on him.

**Ella**: You're a spy?

**Princess Tiana**: I'm the leader of the Resistance that was formed to overthrow your stepmother and the royal family.

**Ella**: *Now*? Where were you before? When the Prince killed my father? And when my stepmother locked me away and made me serve her and her cruel family?

**Princess Tiana**: I am so sorry for everything that has happened to you, but we are doing our best, and I assure you we can end all of this. I saw you with a sword. You could be a great asset to our cause.

**Ella**: I'm not interested in your cause.

**Princess Tiana**: The Prince didn't act alone when he murdered your father. Your stepmother, she planned the whole thing. I can see it in your face - you know I'm right.

**Ella**: What am I supposed to do?

**Princess Tiana**: Come with me. We have a resistance camp nearby. Help us stop your stepmother.

(*Ella sneaks into the Tremaine Manor*)

**Ella**: (*about Anastasia's coffin*) Will there ever be a time where I've suffered enough for what I did?

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: No.

**Ella** Well, if you want to punish me, get it over with. Leave the others out of this. Kill me now.

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: Oh, I'll get to that. But I still need something from you. Shall we take a look? (*opens coffin*)

**Ella** Please...

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: (*about Anastasia's body*) Look at her.

**Ella** Anastasia? I don't understand. She's -

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: Perfectly preserved. There's one tiny breath left inside this precious little body, and I've saved it until I could save her.

**Ella** How? How did you do this?

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: You're not the only one with magical friends. Anastasia was an innocent, with the purest of hearts. The only way to bring her back is with an equally pure heart.

**Ella**: Henry?

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: I did a little digging, and I discovered who he was.

**Ella**: Ana died. It was terrible. But killing another innocent -

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: Is the only way to bring her back.

**Ella** It's wrong!

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: I don't care.

**Ella** You'll never get his heart.

**Rapunzel Tremaine**: Yes I will, because *you're* going to get it for me. Because if you don't, every person in that little resistance you've joined will pay the price. It's your choice, Cinderella. Either you sacrifice that boy, or you sacrifice everyone.

**Regina Mills**: Going somewhere?

**Ella**: After what I almost did, I shouldn't be here.

**Regina Mills**: Well, that's not true. I'm not saying it was the smartest decision, but... Hell, I've done a lot worse. You'd be surprised what people can forgive.

### *A Taste of the Heights* (Season 7, Episode 12)

**Princess Tiana**: Who are you?

**Prince Naveen**: My shiny coat and my sharp spear don't give it away? I'm the hero who's going to kill this beast of a gator.

**Princess Tiana**: Then you're even stupider than you look, because whatever attacked this dock is too big to be any gator.

**Prince Naveen**: You don't have to believe me. In fact, it's probably best if you and your friends run along...

**Princess Tiana**: If anyone is running along, it is *you*.

**Prince Naveen**: Fiery. Whew, I like that. You remind me of someone. Oh, *myself*.

**Captain Hook (Wish Realm)**: You'd do best to cut the quips. This is the future queen of the kingdom you're talking to.

**Prince Naveen**: Allow me to introduce myself. Prince Naveen of Maladonia, at your service.

**Ella Mills**: Wait, you're really a prince?

**Prince Naveen**: I've been tracking this fearsome beast across the entire realm. My enchanted spear is the only weapon strong enough to kill it.

**Princess Tiana**: Now he is bragging about his enchanted spear.

### *The Eighth Witch* (Season 7, Episode 10)

**Mother Gothel**: We poisoned him.

**Ella Mills**: (*Regina tries to heal Henry*) It's not working!

**Drizella Tremaine**: And it's not going to. As a matter of fact, the only thing that *can* is a trip to a land without magic.

**Regina Mills**: Don't do this, Drizella. I can't just... can't just cast a curse! It takes time, and ingredients...

**Drizella Tremaine**: Eight, to be exact. And I have seven of them right here. The only one I'm missing - the most important one, and, of course, the hardest to find - is magic from a witch who crushed the heart of the thing she loves most.

## During Fifth Curse

### *Hyperion Heights* (Season 7, Episode 1)

**Victoria Belfrey**: Lucy is sneaking out of your house in the middle of the night to meet up with some strange man?

**Henry Mills**: I can explain that.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: It's okay, Henry. This isn't your fault. I'll fix it.

**Victoria Belfrey**: How? By day-drinking? If I remember, that's how we ended up with Lucy in the first place.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: That's not fair.

**Victoria Belfrey**: Life isn't fair, Jacinda. Lucy needs some stability. She needs someone she can count on.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: What are you saying?

**Victoria Belfrey**: As of tomorrow, Lucy moves back in with me, permanently.

**Henry Mills**: Well, I'm starting to understand the whole "Cinderella" thing.

**Victoria Belfrey**: I don't know what you're doing here, but you're not helping anyone. Lucy is a lonely little girl, Mr. Mills. Whatever hole you're trying to fill, she's not your answer. So do her a favor, and go back to your books - your fairy lands - whatever nonsense you write. Because in this world, the *real* world... People get hurt.

### *Beauty* (Season 7, Episode 4)

**Jacinda Vidrio**: Where is Lucy?

**Ivy Belfrey**: I assumed she'd come to find you.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: You *lost* her?

**Ivy Belfrey**: I didn't lose her, she ran away from me. Now help me find her before Mother finds out.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: My daughter's running around on her own, and all you care about is what your mother will think?

**Ivy Belfrey**: Please, I'm sure she's fine.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: This would have never happened if you had just let me take her trick-or-treating.

**Ivy Belfrey**: And if you could just get your life together -

**Jacinda Vidrio**: At least I have a life.

**Ivy Belfrey**: Please. Running around with a guy you hope will be your baby daddy isn't a life, it's pathetic.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: He's my friend, but you wouldn't know what having one of those is, would you?

**Ivy Belfrey**: We don't have time for this. We need to find your spawn.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: I can't. If I leave right now, Louie will fire me. You know that.

**Ivy Belfrey**: Then I guess it's up to me, then. Ivy to the rescue... *again*.

### *Knightfall* (Season 7, Episode 13)

**Ivy Belfrey**: Our childhood seems like so long ago.

**Jacinda Vidrio**: Yeah. Almost like a... Like another world, right?

**Ivy Belfrey**: Mm. You have no idea.

## After Sixth Curse

### *Be Careful What You Wish For* (Season 8, Episode 1)

**Henry Mills**: Well, since she united the realms, my mom's formed a group we call the United Realms Royal Association.

**Ella Mills**: "We"? You're a member already, aren't you?

**Henry Mills**: Of course I am. It's just what I always wanted as a kid; to somehow be a hero in both the town I grew up in and the Enchanted Forest!

**Ella Mills**: I'm so proud of you, Henry.

**Henry Mills**: Would you like to join? It'll be like old times.

**Lucy Mills**: I'm going to guess there's an age limit?

**Ella Mills**: Lucy, could I talk to your father alone for a minute? (*Lucy hesitantly exits*) Henry, I can't.

**Henry Mills**: Why not?

**Ella Mills**: Are you forgetting we have a daughter? Quite a precocious daughter, might I add. How do you think she's going to feel if *both* her parents join this union? She'd be so left out. It'd break her. She's not old enough. It's dangerous work, and not just a family club, either. This is an adult occupation. I have to put her first.

**Henry Mills**: Yeah, I understand that. What are you gonna do, then?

**Ella Mills**: I don't know. I don't even feel like a hero or a princess. I just feel like Jacinda.

(*moving into the Mills House*)

**Lucy Mills**: Mom, what happened back at Granny's? What aren't you telling me?

**Ella Mills**: Just grown up stuff, Lucy. Don't worry.

**Lucy Mills**: I'm not a baby, Mom. I was cursed, my dad was poisoned and my step-grandmother died for me. I can handle more than you think.

**Ella Mills**: Lucy, I don't even know who I am anymore. All I remember is spending every day under that curse separated from you and trying to get you back from Victoria. And you know what? Until Henry came along, until people started poking holes in the curse, I failed, *every* single time. We may have been cursed, but I failed you, Lucy. My own child. Jacinda was - *is* - weak.

**Lucy Mills**: That's not true. You never gave up on me. You did everything a mother should to get her daughter back. You're the perfect mom. Jacinda is one of the strongest women I know.

**Ella Mills**: Thank you, Lucy. But I'm about to be the bearer of bad news. I know what you seek more than anything right now after all that time cursed is heroics and adventure. But here's what's going to happen. We live in Storybrooke now. Which means that it's time for you to start at a new school. I know how daunting that can be. But at least Henry's grandma Snow will be there.

**Lucy Mills**: But what are you going to do?

**Ella Mills**: Well, with Sabine - I mean, Tiana, remembering her life as queen, somebody's got to take care of the Rollin' Bayou.

**Lucy Mills**: The food truck?

**Ella Mills**: Yeah. I was good at it. It's time to give the people of Storybrooke a taste of the heights.

### *Stay Strong* (Season 8, Episode 2)

(*at Granny's Diner*)

**Regina Mills**: Ella! Are you even allowed to be selling beignets in here?

**Ella Mills**: You tell me. You're Queen of this whole land, right?

**Granny**: Don't worry, Regina, I let her. You'd think after the merging of the realms, business would be booming. But no, now that all the worlds coexist together, apparently everyone wants to try new things.

**Ella Mills**: So Granny and I are starting a partnership. You know, to try and win some customers over.

**Regina Mills**: I'm so glad you've decided to bring the Rollin' Bayou to Storybrooke. Hey, Henry told me that Lucy might be feeling a little overwhelmed with the new move.

**Ella Mills**: Yeah. The school years starts soon. But I told her that Snow would keep an eye out for her.

**Regina Mills**: Of course. Snow had such a soft spot for Henry back during the First Curse when he was Lucy's age. But if you need a babysitter, I'll always make time for my granddaughter.

### *Wicked Revenge* (Season 8, Episode 5)

**Ella Mills**: (*about the United Realms Royal Association*) You wanna quit? Why?

**Alice Jones**: I don't know. I just don't think I can do it. At the very least, I need a break.

**Ella Mills**: Well, you know I'm happy to let you help out here again. You're a natural with the beignets!

**Alice Jones**: How's the business going? I hear you had a partnership going on with Granny.

**Ella Mills**: I did! Her diner is thriving. And the citizens of Storybrooke are starting to like the Rollin' Bayou!

**Alice Jones**: People are hearing about it?

**Ella Mills**: Yes, I've been *so* busy. I've barely even seen Lucy lately. I could really use some extra help.

### *To Be Queen* (Season 8, Episode 6)

**Ella Mills**: Hey, baby, sorry I'm so late home. Was working overtime. What did you do today?

**Lucy Mills**: I was hanging out with Robin.

**Ella Mills**: Robin, hey? Don't tell me you were off chasing baddies and shooting arrows.

**Lucy Mills**: Actually, we were talking about school. She was giving me advice.

**Ella Mills**: Really? And what advice did she give you?

**Lucy Mills**: She said the key to making friends and finding your place is confidence, but not to be too cocky. She said to find a good balance, and be nice to people.

**Ella Mills**: That's actually pretty good advice.

**Lucy Mills**: I'm actually really excited for school next week. I can put her advice to the test! How are you, Mom? Why did you have to work overtime?

**Ella Mills**: Well, as you know, the Rollin' Bayou is a hit. The people of Storybrooke love their beignets! So I had Alice helping me for a bit. But I think she's going to the United Realms Royal Association. So it's back to just me!

**Lucy Mills**: Why don't you try and find more employees? Wait. Have you ever thought about upgrading the food truck?

**Ella Mills**: The food truck is charming! It's not the Rollin' Bayou without it.

**Lucy Mills**: Mom, you should do it. Take it to the next level!

### *The Mistress of Evil* (Season 8, Episode 7)

**Henry Mills**: Peter Pan *and* Cruella ambushed you? Why didn't you call? Was Lucy here?

**Ella Mills**: Henry, she's okay. We're both okay. She's in bed.

**Henry Mills**: This is all my fault. I got so caught up in my new job, and going on all these wild adventures again, I... I should have been smarter. I should have known Pan and Cruella could be a danger to you.

**Ella Mills**: Well, fortunately for you, you married a badass.

**Henry Mills**: I'm well aware.

**Ella Mills**: You know, I think that was the push that Ella needed to come out of her shell. All this work I've been doing, with the Rollin' Bayou - that was all Jacinda. Just a normal, everyday woman with a hardworking streak thanks to having to fight her stepmother over custody of her daughter. That wasn't Ella. I mean, can you imagine Jacinda fighting off such powerful villains?

**Henry Mills**: So you think that Ella's coming back?

**Ella Mills**: I think so. But, I don't know if I can say goodbye to Jacinda. I mean, *she's* the one with the thriving business.

**Henry Mills**: Who says you have to say goodbye to Jacinda? If there's one good thing that comes from a Dark Curse, it's that you are given a whole new set of skills and experience that you never would have had otherwise. And when a Dark Curse breaks, not only do you remember your true self, but you evolve as a person because of all the things your cursed self taught you. And so when you take both halves of yourself, of your character, you can merge them, just as my mom merged all the lands, and you become both. You become stronger and wiser, and your new identity is born from the two. Both personas are just as important as each other.

**Ella Mills**: So I can still rediscover Ella, while also run the food truck... and take the next step in my career.

### *A Step Forward* (Season 8, Episode 19)

**Drizella Tremaine**: Henry.

**Henry Mills**: (*alarmed*) You.

**Ella Mills**: Drizella? What are you doing here?

**Drizella Tremaine**: I'm here to... you know. Apologize. For everything.

**Henry Mills**: You mean *poisoning* me to get my mother to cast a Dark Curse?

**Drizella Tremaine**: Henry, I -

**Henry Mills**: You know, I once said you seemed a lot nicer than your mother. I was *wrong*. You're *worse*.

### *House Hunters* (Season 9, Episode 6)

**Henry Mills**: So you're hanging up the hat, Aunt Zelena?

**Zelena**: More like hanging up the dagger.

**Ella Mills**: Permanently?

**Zelena**: I don't know yet. Don't really want to think about it.

**Chad Verum**: (*to Henry and Ella*) So, uh, how are you guys?

**Henry Mills**: Great!

**Ella Mills**: (*glares at Henry*) Still working on it. He wants to settle down.

**Zelena**: (*to Henry*) Really? You wanted to be a hero for so long.

**Henry Mills**: Well, I was. I've been on so many adventures, both with my family and by myself, but then when you get poisoned and have an amazing daughter to raise, your mindset shifts. Like how yours shifted when you had Robin.

**Chad Verum**: (*to Ella*) And you don't want to settle down?

**Ella Mills**: Not yet. Henry's had an incredible life. But I still feel like I've missed out on so much. I'll always be a mom, and I'll always be there for Lucy, but I have my own personal goals too.

**Chad Verum**: You know, I had a similar relationship with my first wife when she became pregnant.

**Ella Mills**: I didn't know you had a previous family.

**Zelena**: (*confused*) Neither did I!

**Chad Verum**: My ex was like you, Ella, she felt ready to take on the world. Had this whole sophisticated life plan. But she also wanted a child. And I wasn't ready at all. So when my son was born, the marriage collapsed. I haven't seen either of them since.

**Henry Mills**: Why do you think Chad told you about his son? I mean, sounds like he was in *my* position, not yours.

**Ella Mills**: Because he regrets it.

**Henry Mills**: He never said that.

**Ella Mills**: Henry, your mom was in the same position. She felt guilty about giving you up. She came back into your life. Did you notice Zelena when he mentioned his son? She didn't even know. That's a man who feels so bad about what he did that he can't even tell his wife.

**Henry Mills**: So he's saying that our marriage is going to completely collapse, just like his?

**Ella Mills**: I think he's saying that he doesn't want us to make the same mistake he did.