Belle/Quotes

## Before First Curse

### *Her Handsome Hero* (Season 5, Episode 17)

**Gaston LeGume**: "Her Handsome Hero." Interesting. I wouldn't have picked you for a fan of cheap romance.

**Belle**: No, No! This is not like that. This book is about compassion and forgiveness... The things that truly make a hero.

### *Family Business* (Season 4, Episode 6)

(*Belle's mother Colette is killed by ogres and Belle suffers amnesia*)

**Belle**: According to this, there are creatures who can restore memories that have been lost. If we journey to them, maybe they can help me remember what happened to Mother.

**Sir Maurice**: I can't allow you to do that.

**Belle**: Why not?

**Sir Maurice**: Because there's something this book doesn't tell you - Magic always comes with a price. And whatever that price is, I don't want you to have to pay it. I'm sorry, Belle, but I've already lost your mother to this infernal Ogres War. I can't lose you, too.

**Belle**: But Father -

**Sir Maurice**: You heard me!

**Belle**: No, no!

**Sir Maurice**: Forget this nonsense! You are not to leave this chamber until the doctors say you're better! (*exits*)

**Belle**: I'm sorry, Father, but I need to know what happened, and this is the only place where I'll find the answer; Arendelle.

(*Anna and Belle journey to visit the Rock Trolls*)

**Princess Anna**: Careful.

**Belle**: Why? What's inside?

**Princess Anna**: A hat which can strip the magic from the most powerful of sorcerers.

**Belle**: Why do you have such a thing?

**Princess Anna**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) I sort of stole it from an evil sorcerer when I was back in the Enchanted Forest. I went to him to help with my sister, but things didn't exactly go according to plan.

**Belle**: Why? What happened? Who is this person?

**Princess Anna**: I'd really rather not get into it. The less you know, the better. I just pray you never cross paths with that twisted man.

**Belle**: On my journey, I did some reading. And, well, there's a wizard. A powerful, powerful wizard, who may just help us. His name is -

**Sir Maurice**: I know his name! And I dare not speak it. Trust me, Belle, if we do -

**Belle**: I know. Magic always comes with a price. But if Mother's death taught me anything, it's that sometimes a hero has to sacrifice everything to save the people they love, and I will do whatever I can to save our land. And I *can* be a hero, just like Mother. And if that means summoning Rumplestiltskin, then so be it.

### *Skin Deep* (Season 1, Episode 12)

**Belle**: (*Belle agrees to become Rumplestiltskin's maid to save her kingdom from the Ogre Wars*) No one decides my fate but me. I shall go.

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's forever, dearie.

**Belle**: My family, my friends - they will all live?

**Rumplestiltskin**: You have my word.

**Belle**: Then you have mine. I shall go with you forever.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Deal.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You will serve me my meals, and you will clean the Dark Castle.

**Belle**: I understand.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You will dust my collection and launder my clothing.

**Belle**: Yes.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You will fetch me fresh straw when I'm spinning at the wheel.

**Belle**: Got it.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh! And you will skin the children I hunt for their pelts. (*Belle drops a teacup in shock*) That one was a quip – not serious!

**Belle**: Right. (*picks up Chipped Cup*) I'm, uh, I'm so sorry, but, uh, it's... It's chipped. You can hardly see it.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, it's just a cup.

### *Lacey* (Season 2, Episode 19)

**Belle**: (*Belle visits Robin Hood, who has been imprisoned and tortured by Rumplestiltskin*) Here, drink this. I couldn't let this continue, it's inhuman.

**Robin Hood**: I couldn't agree more. But I fear now he'll turn his wrath on you.

**Belle**: If he does, I'll stand up to the beast that he is, because no one, *no one* deserves to be tortured.

**Robin Hood**: Well, *he* may beg to differ.

**Belle**: Well, I don't care. He doesn't frighten me. (*frees Robin*) Hurry up. He'll be back soon. Hurry.

**Robin Hood**: But he will kill you. Unless you run away with me?

**Belle**: I can't run. I made a deal to serve him, in exchange for him protecting my kingdom and my family from the ogres. If I were to leave, I might survive, but my family surely won't.

**Robin Hood**: All I can do is wish you luck.

**Belle**: Thank you. Now go. Go!

(*after Belle frees Robin Hood from the Dark Castle*)

**Belle**: I didn't free him because of what I read in my books. I saw good in him! That man only wanted to escape with his life.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, is *that* what you thought? Our thief escaped with more than his life. (*shows that Robin stole a wand*) You were tricked, you foolish, gullible girl!

**Belle**: There must be an explanation. We don't know why he needed that wand!

**Rumplestiltskin**: He took the wand because he wanted magic! People who steal magic *never* have good intentions!

**Belle**: No! No! You can't tell what's in a person's heart until you truly know them!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, we'll see what's in his heart, all right... When I shoot an *arrow* straight through it! And because I am a showman, it'll be with *his* bow. And because this is your *fault*, you get to come with me and watch, and know, as the blood *drips* from his carcass, it'll be you and your rags to wipe it *up*!

**Belle**: (*Belle and Rumplestiltskin find Robin Hood*) Look, he's... he's waiting for someone. (*about Maid Marian*) That woman.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That must be the one he stole from the Sheriff.

**Belle**: She's sick. She's going to die.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yeah, and so is he.

**Belle**: Stop! (*Robin uses the wand to heal Marian*) I'm right about him, about why he stole the wand! He did it so he could heal the woman he loves.

**Rumplestiltskin**: He's still a thief.

**Belle**: And she would have died if he hadn't stolen your wand!

**Rumplestiltskin**: And now *he* gets to die! And she can tell all of Sherwood Forest what happens when you cross Rumplestiltskin! (*uses magic to force Belle in place*) There! That should give you a good view.

**Belle**: You don't have to do this. There's good in you! I was right about the thief, and I am right about you. Look, she's pregnant! (*Rumplestiltskin hesitates*) You are not the kind of man to leave a child fatherless! (*Rumplestiltskin shoots with bow and arrow*) No! (*the arrow narrowly misses*)

**Robin Hood**: We've been found. Marian, we must go. (*they ride off*)

**Belle**: What happened?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I missed.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*shows Belle the library*) Temper your excitement, dearie. This is merely another room for you to clean.

**Belle**: It's... It's beautiful! There's more books in here than I could read in a lifetime.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, I hope you can clean faster than you can read.

**Belle**: Did you do all this for *me*?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I better not see a single speck of dust gathering on any of these books! What are you smiling at? I'm serious.

**Belle**: You're not who I thought you were. And I'm glad.

### *Heroes and Villains* (Season 4, Episode 11)

**Belle**: You have so many things here from all over the world. I was curious, and you never talk about them.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, you're the help.

**Belle**: And you're rude.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, I could be much worse.

**Belle**: But you're not. Look, you have seen the world, something that I've always wanted to do, yet you share nothing.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Mouthy, mouthy. And foolishly brave!

**Belle**: No, if you were going to kill me, you would have done it long ago. Now, tell me what you've seen. How was your trip to Camelot?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Good for me. Not so good for Camelot! A souvenir. Clean it for me, will you?

**Belle**: Oh. What is it?

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's a magic gauntlet with a very specific power. It can locate anyone's greatest weakness.

**Belle**: How ominous. But why do you need this? With all your power, you could destroy any foe.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Look, if you *must* know, it's about manipulation, and for that, you must find one's weakness. And for almost everyone, that weakness is the thing they love most.

(*Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella kidnap Belle*)

**Maleficent**: Give me the gauntlet and you can have your wench back.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Seeing as how you asked so nicely... (*telekinetically chokes Maleficent*) You think you can steal from the Dark One and live? Fatal mistake, dearie! Any last words?

**Maleficent**: I'm... Not... Alone. (*Ursula enters*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: The Sea Witch!

**Ursula**: (*about Belle*) Such a pretty thing. Such a shame I'll have to crack her pipes.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Harm one hair on her head, Maleficent burns.

**Cruella De Vil**: (*enters*) And Ursula will kill your maid, and where will that leave us?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Cruella! Thought I caught a whiff of desperation and gin. I must say, I'm surprised to see you all here. Last time we crossed, it looked like things weren't going your way. And unless you hand back my maid, they won't be this time, either.

**Cruella De Vil**: Shall I get you a step stool so you can look in my eyes when you threaten me?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I don't need to threaten you, dearie. It took three of you to get this far, and I promise it isn't far enough.

**Cruella De Vil**: Have it your way. Ursula, darling, crush the maid's heart.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That was a rather risky endeavour for an old glove, dearies.

(*Rumplestiltskin gives them the gauntlet*)

**Ursula**: Oh, the risk was worth it. For too long we've lived in a world where the heroes always win.

**Cruella De Vil**: And the gauntlet will reveal our enemies' weaknesses, and we will be the victors.

**Maleficent**: (*about Belle*) Let her go.

(*Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella exit*)

**Belle**: Why would you do that? I mean, with that object -

**Rumplestiltskin**: They won't be able to harm you.

**Belle**: Why do you care about me?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I don't... But if anyone's gonna crush your heart, it's gonna be me.

### *Skin Deep* (Season 1, Episode 12)

**Rumplestiltskin**: There was a son. I lost him, as I did his mother.

**Belle**: I'm... I'm sorry. So, you... you *were* a man, once? An ordinary man? If I'm never going to know another person in my whole life, can't I at least know you?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Perhaps. Perhaps you just want to learn the monster's weaknesses!

**Belle**: You're not a monster. You think you're uglier than you are, that's why you cover all the mirrors up, isn't it?

### *Out of the Past* (*Truth and Daggers*)

**Belle**: Rumplestiltskin! I need your help!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Please tell me it doesn't have anything to do with the cart of *rotting flesh* behind you.

**Belle**: Rumple, he's badly wounded. He may *die*.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I seem to remember that you went out to buy *food*, yet you return with a *stranger*. Do you expect me to *eat* him?

**Belle**: He's not a stranger to me! And your magic is the only thing that might be able to heal him. Please, we can send him on his way as soon as he's better.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And why should I assist this man? What do *I* get out of it?

**Belle**: Nothing. But it's the right thing to do.

### *Going Home* (Season 3, Episode 11)

**Belle**: (*about Baelfire*) How old would he be?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, he's not dead. He's just lost.

**Belle**: Lost?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Today is his birthday. I should be with him, celebrating. We had a chance to be happy together, but I was afraid.

**Belle**: Maybe it's not too late.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I hope not.

### *Skin Deep* (Season 1, Episode 12)

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*Belle attempts to give Rumplestiltskin True Love's Kiss*) I knew this was a trick. I knew you could never care for me. (*about the Evil Queen*) Oh, yeah, you're working for her? Or is this all you? Is this you being the hero and killing the beast?

**Belle**: It was working -

**Rumplestiltskin**: Shut up!

**Belle**: This means it's true love!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Shut the *hell* up!

**Belle**: Why won't you believe me?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Because no one, *no one*, could ever, *ever* love me!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Go.

**Belle**: Go?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I don't want you anymore, dearie.

**Belle**: (*prepares to leave, then hesitates*) You were freeing yourself! You could've had happiness if you just believed that someone could want you. But you couldn't take the chance.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That's a lie.

**Belle**: You're a coward, Rumplestiltskin. And no matter how thick you make your skin, that doesn't change.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I'm not a coward, dearie. It's quite simple, really. My power means more to me than you.

**Belle**: No. No, it doesn't. You just don't think I can love you. Now you've made your choice. And you're going to regret it forever. And all you'll have, is an empty heart and a chipped cup.

### *Dreamy* (Season 1, Episode 14)

**Belle**: I know love, and you're in it.

**Dreamy**: What's it like?

**Belle**: It's the most wonderful and amazing thing in the world. Love is hope. It fuels our dreams. And if you're in it, you need to enjoy it, because love doesn't always last forever.

**Dreamy**: But if love's so great, then why do I feel so bad right now?

**Belle**: You need to be with the person you love.

**Dreamy**: (*about Nova*) Yeah, but how do I know she feels the same way? All she talked about was going to see some fireflies, not loving me.

**Belle**: What did she tell you about these fireflies?

**Dreamy**: Uh, that she was going to go see them on the hilltop tonight. That she heard they were the most beautiful sight in all the land. (*Belle chuckles*) What?

**Belle**: She wasn't telling you about the fireflies. She was inviting you to go be with her!

### *The Outsider* (Season 2, Episode 11)

**Claude**: (*at tavern*) There's a fearsome beast ravaging a faraway kingdom. Its eyes burn with fire. They call it the yaoguai. No man has been able to kill it, but we will. There's room on our wagon. Now, who's going to join us?

**Dreamy**: Looking for an adventure?

**Belle**: Dreamy, right?

**Dreamy**: Yes. I came to thank you. That advice you gave me last night? It worked. Nova and I are running away together.

**Belle**: That's wonderful.

**Dreamy**: (*about the yaoguai hunt*) Why don't you sign up?

**Belle**: I've always dreamt of heroics, but I think it's safer I stick to my books. They're the only adventures I know that have happy endings.

**Dreamy**: Well, maybe this one'll have one, too.

**Belle**: Well, yeah, I doubt it. Last time I faced a beast, it... It didn't end well.

**Belle**: (*Mulan saves Belle from the yaoguai*) How ever can I thank you? You saved my life!

**Mulan**: And you ruined my hunt. It took me weeks to track the yaoguai here!

**Belle**: Yeah, I found it in a day.

**Mulan**: You had luck on your side.

**Belle**: No, not luck. It was this. (*holds up book*) I could, uh, I could help you find it again?

**Mulan**: You've done enough damage already. If you *really* want to help, stay out of my way.

**Belle**: (*Mulan saves Belle from the yaoguai hunters*) I didn't expect to see you again. Thank you.

**Mulan**: I had to put up with brutes like them when I served in the Emperor's army. Fools who think we have no business holding a sword. I only wish there was someone there to stand up for me.

**Belle**: You're bleeding.

**Mulan**: I'll survive. The sun should be setting soon. We need to move out.

**Belle**: What do you mean, "we"?

**Mulan**: You tracked the yaoguai in a matter of hours. It took me weeks. You track the beast, and I'll kill it.

**Belle**: I'd be honored to help you.

**Mulan**: Belle. You're alive.

**Belle**: I did it. I defeated the yaoguai, with a little help.

**Mulan**: Who are you?

**Prince Phillip**: I was the yaoguai.

**Belle**: He was cursed. So I helped him. Now he's going to help you.

**Mulan**: Wait. You're not coming?

**Belle**: I have another beast to face. Goodbye.

**Mulan**: Goodbye, Belle. (*Belle exits*)

**Prince Phillip**: We haven't been properly introduced. My name's Phillip.

**Mulan**: Mulan.

**Belle**: I'm coming back, Rumple.

**Evil Queen**: Isn't that sweet? Still fighting for true love, even to the bitter end.

**Belle**: How did you find me?

**Evil Queen**: You really should be nicer to your traveling companions. Right, Claude? Take her to the tower. (*Black Knights imprison Belle*)

**Belle**: What? No. What are you doing? I can save him! Just let me go to him. I can break his curse!

**Evil Queen**: You already tried and failed. That monster's beyond saving. I'm sparing you a lifetime of pain and misery.

**Belle**: You can't keep us apart forever! I'll fight for him. I'll never stop fighting for him!

### *Queen of Hearts* (Season 2, Episode 9)

**Captain Hook**: You must be Belle.

**Belle**: The Queen sent you, didn't she? She wants you to kill me.

**Captain Hook**: I'm not here to kill you, love. I'm here to rescue you.

**Belle**: Rescue me? Who are you?

**Captain Hook**: A friend. We haven't much time. Your father's life is in danger. He's being attacked by the very same monster who stole you away from your family in the first place.

**Belle**: What, Rumplestiltskin?

**Captain Hook**: The Dark One – he must be stopped. You spent more time with him than anyone. There are rumors of a magical weapon that has the power to kill him.

**Belle**: No, no, no, no. Let me talk to him. He's not a monster.

**Captain Hook**: Belle, your father's life hangs in the balance. I need to know what that weapon is, and where to find it.

**Belle**: I don't know what you're talking about, and I have no idea how to how to *kill* Rumplestiltskin.

**Captain Hook**: You don't?

**Belle**: No. And nor would I!

**Captain Hook**: Hm. Then I'm afraid I'm not here to rescue you. (*backhands Belle, knocking her unconscious*) So pretty, yet so useless. (*prepares to kill her*)

**Evil Queen**: (*enters*) No. Not useless. She's a valuable chess piece.

## During First Curse

### *A Land Without Magic* (Season 1, Episode 22)

**Belle**: (*the Mad Hatter releases Belle from her cell*) Who are you? Why are you doing this?

**Mad Hatter**: My name is Jefferson, and I need your help to do something that I can't. There's a man, his name is Mr. Gold - find him. All you have to do is tell him where you've been, and that Regina locked you up.

**Belle**: Wait a minute, what?

**Mad Hatter**: It's very important. Mr. Gold's going to protect you, but you have to tell him Regina locked you up. He's going to know what to do. You understand?

**Belle**: Yes. I have to find Mr. Gold.

## After First Curse

### *A Land Without Magic* (Season 1, Episode 22)

**Belle**: (*Belle's memories are restored after the Dark Curse breaks*) Rumplestiltskin, wait. I remember. I... I love you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*they hug*) Yes. Yes. And I love you too. But, hey, there'll be time for that. There'll be time for everything. But first, there's something I must do.

**Belle**: (*about Storybrooke Wishing Well*) What is this?

**Rumplestiltskin**: This is a very special place, Belle. The waters that run below are said to have the power to return that which one has lost. (*drops True Love Potion in the well, bringing magic to Storybrooke*)

### *Broken* (Season 2, Episode 1)

**Rumplestiltskin**: My darling Belle, you have to tell me what happened to you.

**Belle**: I was abducted.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Regina.

**Belle**: She locked me away until her curse, and I've been in the asylum ever since.

**Rumplestiltskin**: For twenty-eight years? All these years, you've been here - alive!

**Belle**: (*about bringing magic to Storybrooke*) Is... Is that... Is that why you did this? Why you wanted magic? For revenge?

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no. But it might come in handy!

**Belle**: No. No.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I cannot let this stand, Belle. I *will* not let this stand!

**Belle**: Look, promise me - promise me you won't give in to your hate. Promise me you won't kill her! Promise me, and we can be together.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Sweetheart... I promise.

**Belle**: You still have it. My chipped cup.

**Rumplestiltskin**: There are many, many things in this shop. But this? This is the only thing I truly cherish. And now, you must leave.

**Belle**: What?

**Rumplestiltskin**: You must leave because, despite what you hope, I'm still a monster.

**Belle**: Don't you see? That's exactly the reason I have to stay.

### *The Crocodile* (Season 2, Episode 4)

**Rumplestiltskin**: I *am* a coward. I have been my entire life. I tried to make up for it by collecting power, and the power became so important that I couldn't let go. Not even when that meant losing the most important person in my life.

**Belle**: Your son.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Baelfire is his name. After he left, I dedicated myself to finding him. I went down many, many paths. Until I found a curse that could take me to the land where he'd escaped.

**Belle**: Here.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And I found myself in this little town with only one thing left to do – wait for the curse to be broken so that I could leave and find him.

**Belle**: But instead of looking for him, you brought magic.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Because I'm still a coward. Magic has become a crutch that I can't walk without. And, even if I could, I now know I can never leave this place.

**Belle**: Because anyone who leaves forgets the people they love. So when you go to look for Baelfire, you won't know him.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Magic comes with a price. Belle, I have to break this new curse. That's why I was using magic. That night you saw me down in the basement... I have lost so much that I loved. I didn't want to lose you again without you knowing everything.

### *Into the Deep* (Season 2, Episode 8)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Belle, you remember the woman who locked you up for twenty-eight years?

**Belle**: Uh, I should probably just -

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no. Please, stay where you are. Whatever she has to say, won't be a secret from you. Whatever she wants, she won't get.

**Regina Mills**: I'm actually coming about the one thing that might unite us.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And what on earth can that be?

**Regina Mills**: Cora. She's coming from our land. I need your help to stop her.

**Rumplestiltskin**: But she was dead. You told me you saw the body.

**Regina Mills**: Apparently you taught her well. She's not, and she's on her way. And I don't think I need to remind you how most unpleasant that would be for both of us.

**Rumplestiltskin**: For you. I can handle Cora.

**Regina Mills**: That's not how she tells the story.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I won in the end.

**Regina Mills**: Maybe. But there's a big difference this time. This time, you have someone you care about. This time, you have a weakness.

### *The Outsider* (Season 2, Episode 11)

**Rumplestiltskin**: I did it. I can leave.

**Belle**: You can cross the town line?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Indeed I can. When I pour this potion onto the object I hold most dear, that object becomes a talisman, and allows me to cross the town line and still remember who I am.

**Belle**: And who you're looking for?

**Rumplestiltskin**: My boy.

**Belle**: What will you enchant?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, this shawl is all I have left of my Baelfire.

**Belle**: I don't suppose I could come with you?

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, I truly wish you could, but I only have enough of this potion for one object.

**Belle**: Uh, sorry, the library's not open yet.

**Captain Hook**: Oh, I'm not here for the books, love.

**Belle**: You. You're the one that broke into my cell at the Queen's palace. You wanted to kill Rumplestiltskin.

**Captain Hook**: Oh, I still do. But right now I'll settle for *you*.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Many years ago, I was married to a woman named Milah, until Hook crossed our paths.

**Belle**: She was Baelfire's mother?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yeah. And because of that marauding cur, he grew up without her. He took my wife – he took Bae's mother – so I took his hand.

**Belle**: That's why he came after me. But what about her? What did he do? Rumple, you can tell me anything.

**Rumplestiltskin**: She died. That's all that matters.

**Belle**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) You stole his wife.

**Captain Hook**: Tell me something, love. If a woman comes to you and begs you to take her away, is that theft?

**Belle**: Why would she leave him?

**Captain Hook**: Because he was a coward. And because she loved me. (*about Baelfire's Shawl*) I should have burned this the moment I acquired it.

**Belle**: Why didn't you?

**Captain Hook**: Because she made it.

**Belle**: I'm sorry she died, but vengeance? Vengeance won't bring her back.

**Captain Hook**: Died? Like it was some kind of accident? Is that what he told you?

**Belle**: Well, he didn't say.

**Captain Hook**: No, of course not. Of course he'd leave out the most important detail of her passing.

**Belle**: And what would that be?

**Captain Hook**: He killed her. He ripped out her heart, and he crushed it right in front of me.

**Belle**: No.

**Captain Hook**: Oh, yes.

**Belle**: No!

**Captain Hook**: Yes. He will do anything - *anything* - to hold on to his power. Why do you think anyone who's ever gotten close to him has either run away, or been killed? Now, what makes you think you're any different? Tell me something, darling. Why would you want to fight for a man like that?

**Belle**: Because I still see good in him. Because I believe he's changed. Because his heart is true. And yours? Yours is *rotten*.

**Captain Hook**: (*to Rumplestiltskin*) Do it! Kill me! (*to Belle*) He has to show you how *powerful* he is!

**Belle**: (*to Rumplestiltskin*) No, Rumple, this is what he wants. To destroy every bit of good in you!

**Captain Hook**: (*to Rumplestiltskin*) Rip my heart out. Kill me like you did Milah, and then I'll finally be reunited with her!

**Rumplestiltskin**: He has to die, Belle!

**Belle**: No! No, he doesn't! There's still good in you. I see it. I've always seen it. Please. Please show me I'm not wrong.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*reluctantly steps away from Captain Hook*) You take your little ship, and sail, until you fall off the edge of the world. I never want to see you again.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*Hook shoots Belle, and she falls over the Storybrooke Town Line and loses her memories*) Belle?! Belle? Belle!

**Belle**: Who's Belle?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, no. No, no, no, no...

**Captain Hook**: Oh, fear not. She'll live. She'll just have no idea who you are.

**Rumplestiltskin**: What you've done cannot be undone!

**Captain Hook**: Well now you finally know how it feels!

### *The Miller's Daughter* (Season 2, Episode 16)

**Belle**: (*on the phone with Rumplestiltskin*) Mr. Gold, I told you before, I don't remember you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I know, I know. It's just... Sweetheart, I'm dying.

**Belle**: Oh. I'm, uh, I'm so sorry.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I know that you're confused about who you are. So, I'm going to tell you. You are a hero, who helped your people. You're a beautiful woman, who loved an ugly man. Really, *really* loved me. You find goodness in others. And when it's not there, you create it. You make me want to go back. Back to the best version of me. And that never happened before. So, when you look in the mirror and you don't know who you are, that's who you are. Thank you, Belle. (*hangs up the phone*)

**Neal Cassidy**: Didn't know you had that in you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, I'm full of love. I've spent a lifetime looking for you. For a chance to say I love you. And I'm sorry.

### *Lacey* (Season 2, Episode 19)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Lacey?

**Lacey**: Yeah?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Now that you're back to your old self, perhaps we could spend some time together.

**Lacey**: Like a date?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yes, a date.

**Lacey**: Well, you *do* know that I'm not this "Belle" that you're always talking about?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yes, of course.

**Lacey**: I've heard about you, you know? People in town... They're afraid of you, Mr. Gold.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Don't let that deter you. Give me a chance, please.

**Lacey**: Okay. Tonight. Granny's. 8:00.

**Lacey**: You're a classy guy, Mr. Gold. This is not what I was expecting from you. Given all the stuff people say about you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, that again! My reputation. What is it you hear?

**Lacey**: Oh, just that, you know, you're the most powerful man in town, and you got that power from being ruthless. And that when people cross you, they get hurt. (*Granny delivers their beverages*) Thank you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I am simply a shop owner, and procurer of difficult-to-find objects. People like to believe the worst in me, but Lacey, I would rather you believe the best.

**Lacey**: Well, I just don't get why people are scared of you. You know, I see a man who wouldn't hurt anyone.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Thank you, Lacey. I really needed to hear that. Especially now.

**Lacey**: Well, you know what they say. You can't tell what's in a person's heart until you truly know them.

### *Second Star to the Right* (Season 2, Episode 21)

**Prince Charming**: Whatever your feelings about Regina are, you still owe me a favor.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Lacey, if you could excuse us, I have some business to attend to.

**Lacey**: Make it quick. (*exits*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: I'm sure I can whip up something to find Regina, but tell me, why do the Charmings want to help the Evil Queen?

**Snow White**: Because I owe her, after what I did to Cora.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Never underestimate the power of a guilty conscience.

**Snow White**: What is that?

**Rumplestiltskin**: This is one of Regina's tears.

**Snow White**: Why do you have one of Regina's tears?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Because I do. This spell, however, requires *two* tears.

**Snow White**: You want one from me?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, just think of a dark moment, dearie, something bleak and hopeless. I know you have a few. (*Snow sheds a tear into a bottle*) Perfect. Now, when you drop this into your eye, your will be connected to Regina wherever she is. Whatever she sees, you'll see, whatever she feels, you'll feel.

### *And Straight On 'Til Morning* (Season 2, Episode 22)

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*Lacey drinks Memory Potion*) Belle?

**Belle**: Rumple!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I'm so sorry! I didn't wanna wake you up to die. But I needed you!

**Belle**: You lost your son. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I've failed. I've failed.

### *Dark Hollow* (Season 3, Episode 7)

(*at Granny's Diner*)

**Jiminy Cricket**: All right, so that's the fourth cheeseburger you've turned down this week. It's about Gold, isn't it?

**Granny**: Certainly not my cooking.

**Jiminy Cricket**: You miss him.

**Belle**: Yeah. And it's just... He said he was going off to his death. And I just... I wish I was... I wish I was able to help him, help save Henry.

**Jiminy Cricket**: But you protected Storybrooke. I mean, that... that's just as important.

**Belle**: All I did was pour a potion over some rocks. The dwarves did all the hard work.

**Jiminy Cricket**: Hey, you wanted to be a hero. Sounds like you were. And you kept the bad guys out.

**Belle**: What bad guys? Come on, face it. Nobody's coming here! I wasn't on that ship because he doesn't need me.

**Michael Darling**: (*about Pandora's Box*) What did Rumplestiltskin tell you about this thing?

**Ariel**: I'm not afraid of you, or your gun. And not just because I don't know what it is!

**John Darling**: Shall we demonstrate? The box. What is it?

**Belle**: It's magic, which you're only gonna destroy anyway, so why do you even care?

**Michael Darling**: Because our boss wants to know.

**Belle**: Your boss? (*scoffs*) You don't even know what this is all about, or who you're really working for.

**John Darling**: Peter Pan.

**Belle**: What?

**Michael Darling**: Yes, we know exactly who we're working for.

**Belle**: But Rumple said that -

**John Darling**: Greg and Tamara didn't know? They were patsies. We, on the other hand, are aware of our real mission.

**Belle**: Which is what?

**Michael Darling**: Seeing that your Rumple fails, and that this thing never makes it back to Neverland.

**John Darling**: We don't care about magic.

**Belle**: Then what were you trying to do?

**John Darling**: Trying to save our sister.

**Ariel**: Your sister?

**John Darling**: She's been Pan's prisoner for a long time.

**Michael Darling**: Over a century.

**Belle**: That's impossible. You'd be -

**John Darling**: Dead. We're well aware. Pan has kept us alive to do his bidding, and as long as we do, she lives.

**Michael Darling**: And then when we're done, he'll free her, *and* us.

**John Darling**: But now -

**Belle**: Now is your best chance. We can defeat Pan, and your sister can finally be set free.

**John Darling**: You think you're the first person who thought they could beat him?

**Belle**: Why? Have you tried?

**John Darling**: Yes, but we failed. It's how our sister ended up his prisoner in the first place.

**Michael Darling**: We tried to be heroes, but it just made things worse.

**John Darling**: And now? Now that we've failed, he'll kill her.

**Belle**: (*about Pandora's Box*) We get this back to Neverland, Pan is gonna have much bigger things to worry about.

**John Darling**: Can you really stop him?

**Belle**: Yeah, I believe we can. And if what you're saying is true, we will save your sister.

**Ariel**: Who is she?

**Michael Darling**: Her name is Wendy. Wendy Darling.

## Before Second Curse

### *New York City Serenade* (Season 3, Episode 12)

**Belle**: You'll see them again. Emma and Henry.

**Neal Cassidy**: Well, let's hope I don't have to curse an entire kingdom to get back to them.

**Belle**: I heard you talking to David about Rumple. You know, we never saw his knife. I think we can get him back.

### *Witch Hunt* (Season 3, Episode 13)

(*the citizens of the Enchanted Forest are attacked by Flying Monkeys*)

**Grumpy**: If I didn't know better, I'd say it looked an awful lot like a monkey.

**Prince Charming**: A monkey with wings?

**Evil Queen**: Yes, that's exactly what it is.

**Neal Cassidy**: Okay, you're acting like that's normal.

**Belle**: Actually, it is, but not here. There's only one land that has creatures like that. I've read about it; Oz.

**Snow White**: Oz? That's a real place?

**Evil Queen**: The bookworm's right. It's quite real. If our simian friend is any indication, then I think we know exactly who's taken up residence in our castle. The Wicked Witch.

**Grumpy**: We talking East or West?

**Snow White**: Does it matter? Neither one sounds good.

**Grumpy**: One you drop a house on, the other one you toss a bucket of water at.

**Prince Charming**: So Regina, what exactly are we up against besides green skin and a pointy hat? What did you do to her?

**Evil Queen**: This time, nothing. Never met her.

**Prince Charming**: This isn't a personal vendetta? Shocking. Okay then, Oz aside, we stick to the original plan. Arm up, then attack. Assuming you can get the shield down.

**Evil Queen**: You don't need to worry about me.

**Snow White**: I'm coming with you.

**Evil Queen**: No, this is a one-woman job.

**Snow White**: What? Against the Wicked Witch? She has flying monkeys, who knows what else!

**Evil Queen**: I don't care if the Lollipop Guild is protecting her. I can lower that shield on my own.

### *Quiet Minds* (Season 3, Episode 15)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) He died to save us. His family.

**Belle**: At least he died a hero.

**Neal Cassidy**: Were you surprised he had it in him?

**Belle**: Of course not. Were you?

**Neal Cassidy**: I don't know. I mean, my papa was never the most selfless guy. I know he wished he'd never let me go through that portal. I know how sorry he was, but now that I have a son of my own, I can't imagine ever doing what he did.

**Belle**: He regretted what happened with you *so* much. He was willing to do anything to get back to you.

**Neal Cassidy**: Well that's one thing about him I can relate to, because I would do anything to get back to Henry.

(*at the Vault of the Dark One*)

**Lumiere**: I've spent 200 years in Rumplestiltskin's library witnessing more dark magic and sorcery than any living creature has ever seen.

**Belle**: I'm sorry, how long did you say you were there?

**Lumiere**: 200 years, at least.

**Belle**: He's lying. Rumple built that library for me, not long before the curse. It's been there barely 30 years.

**Neal Cassidy**: Who are you? Unless you wanna spend the rest of eternity under a snowdrift, you better start talking.

**Lumiere**: I am who I appear to be. Only it wasn't Rumplestiltskin who turned me into this wretched form. It was the Wicked Witch of the West.

**Belle**: The Wicked Witch? She told you to lead us here?

**Lumiere**: She wants you to bring back the Dark One, so she can control him with his dagger.

**Belle**: We need to leave this place.

**Neal Cassidy**: Belle, wait. This means we can bring him back. Does it matter who got us here?

**Belle**: Rumple didn't sacrifice his life for good so he could return to be a slave to evil.

**Neal Cassidy**: My father is the king of loopholes. I'm sure he'll figure out a way to deal with her.

**Belle**: What if he can't? Think what she could do if the Dark One was under her control. We'll find another way to bring him back.

**Neal Cassidy**: What if there is no other way? I can't waste any more time. I need to get him back. To hell with the costs!

**Belle**: That's what your father told himself when he forged the curse that condemned countless people to misery. Don't make the same mistake he made! (*Neal ignores her and resurrects Rumplestiltskin*)

(*Neal revives Rumplestiltskin but begins dying in the process*)

**Wicked Witch of the West**: A life for a life.

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's gonna be alright, son.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: I do doubt that.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*to Belle*) Go. I'm not gonna let him go.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Sorry, Rumple. You can't hang on to both. (*takes Dark One Dagger, but Rumplestiltskin absorbs Neal into his body to keep him alive*) Wow, I didn't think you had it in you. You got your son, but you lost yourself.

**Belle**: Rumple?

**Rumplestiltskin**: No Rumple. No room! No room! No Rumple!

### *A Curious Thing* (Season 3, Episode 19)

**Snow White**: It's happening again... I'm about to give birth, and an evil sorceress is threatening the future of my child!

**Evil Queen**: To be fair, the first time I was threatening *you*. Everyone else just became collateral damage.

**Grumpy**: Remind me again why we forgave her?

**Evil Queen**: Because I'm helping! Frustrating as it is for me to remember, Snow, you had a head start to defeat me last time. How?

**Prince Charming**: We were warned.

**Snow White**: By Rumplestiltskin.

**Evil Queen**: Maybe he can warn you again.

**Grumpy**: Wait. You want to sneak into Rumple's castle, where he's being held captive by the Wicked Witch? Name's Grumpy, not Stupid.

**Snow White**: You're right, it is stupid, but for our child -

**Prince Charming**: We'll do whatever it takes.

**Evil Queen**: Heartwarming. He's trapped in his own castle. Belle, you were prisoner there.

**Belle**: Yes, but breaking in? I would have no idea how.

**Robin Hood**: Luckily I do. I broke in there once before.

**Evil Queen**: Why are we even listening to him? He's a thief, which means he's not to be trusted! What are you even still doing here?

**Robin Hood**: What I'm doing here is saving your ass!

**Evil Queen**: He really *is* back from the dead.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Dead. Dead. So much better. Dead.

**Prince Charming**: He's lost his mind.

**Rumplestiltskin**: On the contrary, now I have two! Two minds. Mining time. Digging deeper in the grime.

**Belle**: What is she doing to him?

**Snow White**: Nothing that can't be undone. Rumplestiltskin, we need your help. How do we stop Zelena?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Round and round, the circle of time, racing towards the finish line.

**Evil Queen**: This is pointless.

**Belle**: Let me try. Hey. Hey Rumple. Hey. Hey. I know you're in there. I know you can hear me. How do we stop Zelena?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Light.

**Belle**: What?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Light magic. The Good Witch of the South. Glinda.

**Belle**: Glinda, but south of what? Oz?

**Rumplestiltskin**: No. Banished. Here. The Good Witch of the South was banished north. North of the Dark Forest.

**Snow White**: How do we find her? Rumplestiltskin? In the Dark Forest, how do we find her?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Through the door, step inside. If pure of heart, then she won't hide.

## During Second Curse

### *Witch Hunt* (Season 3, Episode 13)

**Grumpy**: Who cast the last curse? Who knows how to use it? Who's the *only* one who ever did anything like this before? The Evil Queen!
**Regina Mills**: For once, I'm *just* as clueless as the rest of you.

**Victor Frankenstein**: You expect us to believe that?

**Regina Mills**: It's the truth!

**Granny**: This curse has your fingerprints all over it.

**Belle**: You *did* take away our memories once before.

**Granny**: You still have your big house.

**Regina Mills**: Do you think I care about my house? About my job? About any of these things?

**Jiminy Cricket**: Regina, please. Just tell us the truth. We'll understand.

**Granny**: Speak for yourself.

### *Quiet Minds* (Season 3, Episode 15)

**Belle**: So Rumple is alive? I mean, how is that even possible?

**Emma Swan**: We were hoping *you* might be able to tell us that. You know him and the shop better than anyone. If he's in Storybrooke, there has to be a clue in here about how he got back, and how we can find him, now that he is.

**Belle**: Yeah, I'll start looking right away.

**Prince Charming**: Keep your eyes out for him, too. If he comes into town -

**Belle**: He'll come to me. Yeah, I know.

**Captain Hook**: I will stay here with you. I'm surprisingly good at research.

**Belle**: *You* will stay with me?

**Emma Swan**: He'll protect you, if the witch comes.

**Belle**: You *do* know he tried to kill me?

**Captain Hook**: Well, there were extenuating circumstances.

**Belle**: Twice.

**Captain Hook**: Sorry?

**Emma Swan**: You really know how to charm a girl, don't you?

**Captain Hook**: This will be my way of making it up to you.

**Belle**: Fine.

### *Bleeding Through* (Season 3, Episode 18)

**Regina Mills**: I need to destroy my sister. She has my heart. Oh, relax. She can't control me with it. I protected it from that. The problem is, I don't know what she's planning on using it for, which is why I need to take her out! That's why I need your help. What do you have here?

**Belle**: What do I *have* here? Self-respect. Why on Earth or any realm would I help *you*? The woman who imprisoned me in a tower in her castle, then put me in an asylum for twenty-eight years, who's done nothing but mentally and physically torture me ever since we've known each other!

**Regina Mills**: Huh. Bookworm's got teeth.

**Belle**: Get out.

**Regina Mills**: Yes, I did all those horrible things... in the past. But right now, I need something to defeat the woman who's puppet-mastering your boyfriend. She has your Rumple, and unless you help me, you may never see him again. I'm sorry, Belle. I really, *really* am.

**Belle**: (*about Zelena*) She's planning on going back; Back in time.

**Regina Mills**: Are you certain? No one's ever been able to cast a spell to go back in time.

**Belle**: Well, clearly she thinks she can succeed. I mean, brains, courage, a resilient heart - Those ingredients are in every Time Travel Spell I've found.

**Prince Charming**: Why go back in time? I mean, we have no idea what she's trying to accomplish.

**Snow White**: I do. (*about Cora*) She - she didn't -

**Prince Charming**: Don't push yourself.

**Snow White**: She didn't want to give up Zelena. She was forced to by - by my mother, Princess Eva. She told a secret, just like I did.

**Emma Swan**: Wait. I thought our family were the good guys?

**Regina Mills**: Life is too messy for it to ever be that simple.

**Prince Charming**: You're saying if it wasn't for Snow's mother, Cora would have kept Zelena?

**Belle**: *She* would have been tutored by Rumplestiltskin.

**Captain Hook**: All if it weren't for this Princess Eva?

**Snow White**: So that means Zelena's going back to kill my mother.

**Regina Mills**: You'll have never been born.

**Emma Swan**: I'm guessing this is where your help ends.

**Regina Mills**: Now, think it through, Miss Swan. That means *you'll* have never been born, and neither will Henry.

**Snow White**: And on this different path, Regina, you may not be, either.

**Captain Hook**: It's a good thing no one has ever succeeded with this time travel nonsense.

**Prince Charming**: The baby.

**Captain Hook**: What?

**Prince Charming**: That's what's missing. That's why none have succeeded! Somehow, some way, our baby is the key. Zelena went to a lot of effort to get close to our unborn child. *That's* what she's after.

**Snow White**: What is she going to do to with -

**Prince Charming**: It doesn't matter. She's not gonna get it. We're gonna stop her.

## After Second Curse

### *Kansas* (Season 3, Episode 20)

**Belle**: I knew you'd be back!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Your unswerving faith constantly astounds me. And after everything I did.

**Belle**: It wasn't you, it was Zelena.

**Rumplestiltskin**: It wasn't always Zelena. I will never comprehend why you continue to stand by my side.

**Belle**: I love you. Always have. (*presents Dark One Dagger*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: How did you get that?

**Belle**: Regina gave it to me to make amends. And also because she knew I wouldn't abuse its power. I want you to have it.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Why?

**Belle**: Because I believe in you. It's yours. You're a free man. Just promise me one thing. Promise me you won't go after Zelena. I know you're better than that.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, Belle. What you're giving me is more than I can ever give you. But I will try. This? This is trust. It means you trust me. With all your heart.

**Belle**: I do.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And I shall trust you with mine. Take it. I am now and for all the future yours.

**Belle**: Wait. What are you saying?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Will you marry me?

**Belle**: Yes. Yes!

### *There's No Place Like Home* (Season 3, Episode 22)

(*Rumplestiltskin and Belle's wedding*)

**Jiminy Cricket**: It is my great honor to officiate this most lovely reunion. If you'd like to begin your vows.

**Belle**: Rumplestiltskin, this thing we have... it's never been easy. I've lost you so many times. I've lost you to darkness, to weakness, and finally, to death. But now I realize - I realize that I have not spent my life losing you. I've spent my life finding you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Belle, when we met I wasn't just unloved and unloving. I was an enemy of love. Love had only brought me pain. My walls were up. But you broke them down. You brought me home. You brought light into my life and chased away all the darkness. And I vow to you I will never forget the distance who I was, and what I am. I owe more to you than I can ever say. How you can see the man behind the monster, I will never know. But the monster is gone, and the man beneath him may be flawed, but we all are.

**Belle**: And I love you for it. Sometimes the best book has the dustiest jacket, and sometimes the best tea cup is chipped.

### *Family Business* (Season 4, Episode 6)

**Rumplestiltskin**: What could you possibly want from the Snow Queen's cave?

**Belle**: A hat... One that can strip a magical being of their powers.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That sounds like a remarkable object; almost too good to be true, which means it probably is.

**Belle**: It isn't, and I know she has it, and I need to get it from her. It's the only way to force her to tell us where Anna is.

**Rumplestiltskin**: So this is about Elsa's sister? Why are you so invested in a girl you've never even met?

**Belle**: Because a hero always helps strangers.

(*after Belle sees the Trolden Glass in the Snow Lair*)

**Belle**: When I found that mirror, something came over me, like a spell, and it spoke to me and made me believe all these horrible things, and it said to me that the dagger you gave me is fake.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I can assure you that nothing that mirror said is true. It was imbued with the darkest of magic. I know you would never wrong me.

**Belle**: I *have* wronged you. I've kept a terrible secret from you. I'm the reason that Anna's missing. I didn't want anyone to know until I could make things right and save Anna. But I couldn't. I failed! And all I managed to do was abuse the dagger and take advantage of you, my true love. I don't even know if I deserve to be with you anymore...

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no, no. You were only doing what you thought was right.

**Belle**: You forgive me?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Of course I forgive you. Thank you for telling me everything.

**Belle**: Thank you for understanding. I never should have kept a secret from you, especially 'cause I know that you'd never keep one from me. I love you, Rumple.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And I love you, too.

### *Fall* (Season 4, Episode 9)

**Belle**: (*about Spell of Shattered Sight*) It appears to be pretty much unstoppable. The one thing I *did* find is there may be a way to undo the effects from anyone it touches.

**Emma Swan**: That's wonderful.

**Belle**: It seems that when somebody's been touched by the spell, that you can use them to undo it. With a strand of their hair, you can make some kind of counter spell, like a vaccine.

**Queen Elsa**: My sister.

**Emma Swan**: What?

**Queen Elsa**: My aunt said she put me in that urn. I didn't believe her because Anna would never do that, unless she was under that spell. We have to get to her.

**Belle**: But you still don't know where she is.

**Queen Elsa**: No, but now you can help me find her. You said if I had something of hers, you could use this locator spell. Well, now I have something of hers. Sometimes sentimentality pays off.

**Emma Swan**: Point Elsa.

(*Elsa gives Belle Anna's Wishing Star*)

**Belle**: There's mirror dust in this, actually embedded in the metal.

**Queen Elsa**: So I was right, she *was* under that spell. So if we find Anna, she can save everyone.

**Belle**: I'll round up the fairies. They can set up shop somewhere close and figure out how to make the counter spell.

(*preparing to use the Wishing Star to create a counter spell against the Spell of Shattered Sight*)

**Snow White**: Where is it?

**Regina Mills**: (*about Elsa*) She tricked us so she can use it to keep tracking down her damn *sister*! I should know better than to trust blondes by now.

**Emma Swan**: We should go back and get it.

**Belle**: No, it's too late.

**Snow White**: Too late? Already?

**Belle**: By the time you get back here, yes. Without Anna being here physically, there's no way to make a counter spell in time.

**Regina Mills**: Time for a hope speech? Virtues of blind faith?

**Snow White**: Well, it seems Elsa's blind faith is exactly what's screwing us right now!

**Regina Mills**: Coming from you, that's just terrifying.

### *Heroes and Villains* (Season 4, Episode 11)

**Henry Mills**: Hey, Grandma. Are you taking a trip?

**Belle**: Yeah, Rumple's taking me to New York for our honeymoon.

**Henry Mills**: But the Snow Queen left a spell on the town line. Anyone who goes can't return. Didn't you hear?

**Belle**: No, I didn't, but I'm sure he must have a way to remove it. Hey, what's wrong?

**Henry Mills**: This book. It's got all your stories in it. It started all this. And my mom... Lots of bad things happen to her in it.

**Belle**: Well, that doesn't mean they'll *always* happen to her that way. I wouldn't worry. She's on a much better path now.

**Henry Mills**: Thanks, Grandma.

**Belle**: Yeah, you know... Belle's good.

**Henry Mills**: Got it.

**Belle**: Do you remember the first time you saved my life? You traded for me. I thought I saw something in you, something good. Well, I found that gauntlet today. And that's when I finally realized that all the signs I'd been seeing were correct. You'd never give up power for me, Rumple. You never have. You never will.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You don't understand -

**Belle**: No. You told me that gauntlet could lead you to someone's weakness, to the thing they loved the most. Well, you know where it led *me*, Rumple? To the *real* dagger. Your true love is your power.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I like the power. But there's nothing wrong with power, not when it means that, that I - that *we* - that we can have it all!

**Belle**: I just wanted *you*. I wanted to be chosen, not... I tried to be everything for you, Rumple. But I wasn't. And I lost my way trying to help you find yourself. Not anymore.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Please, Belle, I'll make it up to you. I've changed once before. I can do it again.

**Belle**: You've never changed.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Please -

**Belle**: No! It's too late. Once, I saw the man behind the beast. Now there's only a beast. Rumplestiltskin, I command you to leave Storybrooke.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Belle, no. Please. I won't be able to come back!

**Belle**: I know.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I don't want to lose you!

**Belle**: You already have.

### *Darkness on the Edge of Town* (Season 4, Episode 12)

**Belle**: You know, Rumplestiltskin got the best of us. And you're right, you should've been stronger, but you weren't... And, well, neither was I. You know, I should've seen through him.

**Captain Hook**: You were blinded by love. What was my excuse?

**Belle**: Probably the same, just for someone else.

**Captain Hook**: Well, he's right about one thing... Love is a weapon, as dangerous and persuasive as magic.

**Belle**: Yeah. Yeah, he had both of our hearts.

### *Lily* (Season 4, Episode 19)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Belle, I need to say something.

**Belle**: I'm not sure I want to hear it.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Please, please. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I spent every day of our marriage deceiving you, when I should have been trying to make you happy. And now it's too late. My heart is nearly black. And if I continue hurting you, then there's no hope for me.

### *Operation Mongoose Part 2* (Season 4, Episode 22)

**Belle**: What's happening?

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's my heart. The last human fleck of red is disappearing.

**Belle**: Your ability to love.

**Rumplestiltskin**: At least, in the end, I got one last taste. (*about alternate reality*) We were happy in there. We were in love.

**Belle**: I was already in love. Everything we had in the book, you could have had here. You could have been a good man with a good marriage for real. Why wasn't it good enough?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Because I didn't believe it. Who could ever love me?

**Belle**: I knew what I was getting, Rumple. I wasn't going to pull back.

**Rumplestiltskin**: But I made you do just that. There's a whole world out there, Belle, for you. Go with Will.

**Belle**: I don't love Will.

## Before Third Curse

### *Siege Perilous* (Season 5, Episode 3)

**Emma Swan**: (*about Merlin*) You guys sure you don't want me to just wiggle my nose and get him out of that tree?

**Snow White**: No!

**Regina Mills**: Your magic is dark now. It's not worth it. I'll just keep pretending to be the savior destined to free him, and we can do this together.

**Prince Charming**: Regina's right, Emma.

**King Arthur**: (*enters*) I heard someone say a woman is right. That's always a safe assumption, isn't it, David? How are you progressing, Madame Savior?

**Regina Mills**: Um... Progress. Slow but sure.

**Belle**: It's marvelous having Merlin's own books to work with. It's like talking with the master himself.

**Snow White**: Oh. What if we could talk to him?

**Emma Swan**: What?

**Regina Mills**: Yes! You are - *occasionally* a genius.

**Belle**: Yes - If we talked to him, he can tell us how to get him out!

**Prince Charming**: A mushroom?

**Regina Mills**: Toadstool, actually. Deadly poison. Extremely useful in communicating across barriers, even through spells. Says here it's called the Crimson Crown.

**King Arthur**: Yes, I know this name. It's rumored to grow in Brocéliande, the Forest of Eternal Night. Its existence is the stuff of legend, though. Almost certainly fiction.

**Prince Charming**: People say the same thing about us.

### *The Bear and the Bow* (Season 5, Episode 6)

**Belle**: Where are you taking me?

**Princess Merida**: Ooh, you got fire. I like that. But I don't mean to hurt you.

**Belle**: Tell that to the bump on my head.

**Princess Merida**: Without the wisps, I need another way to find my brothers, and that other way is you.

**Belle**: Oh, yeah? You need magic, you could have just asked.

**Princess Merida**: What, and risk getting a no? Sorry, but I'm more of a "hit first, ask questions later" kind of lass.

**Belle**: Ah, is that why the clans kidnapped your brothers?

**Princess Merida**: Hardly. Those kilted oafs don't think I can rule the highlands without marrying one of them. I'm not gonna marry someone I don't fancy just to hold on to me own crown. After my father's death, they exiled my mother, then kidnapped my brothers as ransom. They'll only free them if I relinquish the throne.

**Belle**: And you don't plan on doing that?

**Princess Merida**: Would you give up everything you have ever dreamed of just because a man said you didn't deserve it? So what do you say? Will you help me show the clans they messed with the wrong Queen?

**Princess Merida**: I refused to believe a bow was just something my mother tied to my curly locks. My father agreed. He said learning to fight was essential whether you wore a dress or a kilt. He was a wise man, that King Fergus.

**Belle**: I wish my father had been as supportive of my adventures.

**Princess Merida**: He wasn't just supportive. He taught me everything I know about shooting. Said to me, "lass, if you remember what you're fighting for, you will never miss your target."

**Belle**: Well, it looks like it was good advice.

**Princess Merida**: Aye. Now, is my potion done?

**Belle**: Yeah, about that... Do you know what this potion will do to you?

**Princess Merida**: Think I would ask you to make it if I didn't?

**Belle**: But it'll turn you into a bear.

**Princess Merida**: No, it changes fate is what it does. The Spell of Mor'du, they call it. Legend says that witch used it to change the fate of a prince; gave him the strength of 10 men.

**Belle**: So you think that turning yourself into a bear will make you strong enough to rescue your brothers?

**Princess Merida**: I know it will. This isn't the first time I've seen this magic in action.

**Belle**: But Merida, you don't need magic to change fate.

**Princess Merida**: How would you know?

**Belle**: I just watched you split arrows without blinking an eye. You can make your own fate. All you need is your wit and your bow.

**Princess Merida**: Not long ago, DunBroch was attacked. It was an enemy from another land. My father fought side by side with all the clans, and I with him. As he brought us toward victory, I saw a helmed knight heading straight for him, his sword raised. My father didn't see the knight. It was up to me. I had the enemy in my sights. I notched an arrow, pulled back the bowstring. I took a breath, steadied my hand, and let the arrow fly... But I missed, and the knight ran my father through. My father is dead because of me.

**Belle**: No, it's not your fault.

**Princess Merida**: What do you know of it?

**Belle**: I lost my mother in the Ogre Wars. I blamed myself too, until I finally realized the truth. It wasn't my fault. I forgave myself. You have to learn to do the same.

**Princess Merida**: I can't. The clans, they lost faith in me that day.

## After Third Curse

### *The Price* (Season 5, Episode 2)

**Captain Hook**: True Love's Kiss. I need to know why it didn't work for you and the bloody Crocodile.

**Belle**: It did work, the first time. It awoke the man behind the beast, but Rumple got scared of a life without power, and he chose power over love. He pulled away from me, and in that moment, the darkness forever regained its grip on him. You know, a curse isn't a curse anymore when the afflicted wants it.

**Captain Hook**: That won't be a problem with Emma.

**Belle**: Killian, wait. I know you think you can handle a Dark -

**Captain Hook**: I've battled him for centuries. I'm still here.

**Belle**: But you were trying to kill him. And now, well... It's far easier to hate a Dark One than it is to love one. Be careful.

### *The Bear and the Bow* (Season 5, Episode 6)

**Rumplestiltskin**: When I was in the coma, all I wanted to do was let go. After all I'd done, why did I deserve to live? And then I heard something - Your voice. After all the things I've done to you, you still stood by me. Belle, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even be alive. Thank you.

**Belle**: Come on. You know it won't take Emma long to figure out where you've gone.

**Rumplestiltskin**: If she wanted to find me, she would have already. She wanted me to escape.

**Belle**: But that doesn't make sense. She kidnapped you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: To turn me into a hero so I can pull Excalibur from the stone.

**Belle**: So how does letting you escape do that?

**Rumplestiltskin**: She's coming after you.

**Belle**: Me? Why?

**Rumplestiltskin**: To force me to protect you. She thinks that'll make me the hero she needs.

**Belle**: You know, running never made anyone a hero, okay?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, don't you get it? I'm not a hero!

**Belle**: Well, you've been brave before!

**Rumplestiltskin**: When? During the First Ogres War? Let me tell you the truth about that day. I didn't cripple myself to get back to my son. I did it because I was scared.

**Belle**: Rumple...

**Rumplestiltskin**: I joined the army to prove I wasn't a coward. But when I'd seen the wounded coming back from the front lines, I didn't want to die. I'm a coward, Belle, and that's never gonna change.

### *Broken Heart* (Season 5, Episode 10)

**Belle**: You don't have anything to prove anymore. You saved me from Merida. You're a hero now.

**Rumplestiltskin**: But that doesn't erase a lifetime of cowardice. Nothing can. Belle, I know that I've hurt you in unforgivable ways. But I also know that not wanting me to die isn't the same as wanting to be with me. So if I survive this, I want to do better by you. I want to love you in a way I never could before. With honesty and courage. Let me be the man you deserve. The man I swore on my son's grave that I would be.

**Belle**: Rumple... This isn't easy for me. I love you, and some part of me will *always* love you. But you've broken my heart too many times. There's just too much broken trust.

**Rumplestiltskin**: But I've changed. My heart is pure now!

**Belle**: Yeah, you have, and it is. You're the man that I always hoped you would be.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Then why are you doing this now? Now we have a chance to make this work.

**Belle**: I don't know that I want to make it work. But I *do* know that if I'm gonna try and figure that out, I need to do that on my own. I have spent too many years trying to mend your heart. Now I need to protect mine.

### *Swan Song* (Season 5, Episode 11)

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*hands Belle a potion*) This will save you from harm when you're crossing the town line.

**Belle**: Am I going somewhere?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, that's up to you. You've always wanted to see the world. Well, all of it is right out there, the other side of that town line. Go when you can. See all the wonders you've dreamt of, and when you've tasted it all, maybe one day you'll come back. Go today and have a life.

**Belle**: Is something wrong?

**Rumplestiltskin**: No. No, no, no, no. Nothing's wrong. I just want you to live out your dream. Okay, look, here. You take the car, say goodbye to your father, and then start living.

**Belle**: I knew there was a hero in there!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Goodbye, Belle.

**Belle**: Rumple.

**Rumplestiltskin**: What are you doing here?

**Belle**: Henry called. He told me everything. You lied to me... again.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Belle, I -

**Belle**: For the first time, you were truly selfless! You know, I don't need to see the world to know what I want anymore. What I want is to be with you.

### *Our Decay* (Season 5, Episode 16)

**Mr. Gold**: My boy was sick. In exchange for Baelfire's life, I made a deal to give up my second-born child.

**Belle**: But you don't have a second-born child.

**Mr. Gold**: It happened, Belle.

**Belle**: I'm... I'm pregnant? (*excited*) We're gonna have a baby! (*angry*) A baby... A baby that you've already *sold*!

**Mr. Gold**: Yes, but... but we can fix that. I'll use all my power. We can fix this.

**Belle**: Power? (*realizes*) You're the Dark One again. No.

**Mr. Gold**: Yes. See, the thing is... (*reveals Dark One Dagger*) I love this dagger. And I also love *you*. Both are possible. Look, you wanted me to be a better man. And you've done that. But if you want me to be a *different* man... I'm sorry. This is who I am.

**Belle**: You weren't always.

**Mr. Gold**: Yes, I was. Even when I was a coward, I craved power. The only difference is, now I *have* it. And I won't let it go. Not again.

**Belle**: Right. Not even for me.

**Mr. Gold**: Belle, there's something you must realize. Falling in love with the man behind the beast isn't really what happened to you. You fell in love with me because I was a man *and* a beast. Neither exists without the other.

### *Her Handsome Hero* (Season 5, Episode 17)

**Belle**: When we were in Camelot, Merlin said that perhaps one day someone would be able to wield the power of the Dark One Dagger for good. Show me that you can be that man. Show me, and... and we can save our child, and we can turn the darkness into light.

**Mr. Gold**: Well, that's the thing with dark and light. Depends on your point of view. In the end, you do what you can to protect those you love.

**Belle**: All right, well, I'd never resort to darkness because that's not what a hero does.

**Mr. Gold**: In the heat of the moment, you do whatever it takes.

**Belle**: You want a future with me? You have to do this *my* way.

**Gaston LeGume**: Why do you defend Rumplestiltskin? He kidnapped you. He made you a servant. You should want him dead, too!

**Belle**: Yeah, well, I don't.

**Gaston LeGume**: Why not?

**Belle**: He's my husband.

### *Ruby Slippers* (Season 5, Episode 18)

**Belle**: Please, Zelena, you know what it's like to have to lose a child.

**Zelena**: Why come to me when you've got the Dark One on your side?

**Belle**: Yeah, can't really trust him right now.

**Zelena**: So, you finally see the beast behind the man! Maybe you can understand why I'm not rushing to Hades with open arms.

**Belle**: Well, I don't think it's because of me and Rumple. I think it's because you're scared.

**Zelena**: Of the Lord of Death? Please. I just know the truth. I'm never going to get my happy ending. Not with Hades, not with my daughter, not with anyone.

**Belle**: How do you know that if you haven't tried?

**Zelena**: Oh, I have tried. Look where I am... Drinking with the bookworm! (*Belle gags*) Oh, come on. If I disgust you that much, maybe you should leave.
 **Belle**: No. No, it's, uh... it's... it's not that. It's just morning sickness. You remember what that's like?

**Zelena**: Actually, I don't. Not since the Dark Swan made sure my pregnancy lasted all of 10 minutes.

**Belle**: Wait. Hades, if he decides he wants my child *now*, he could speed up my pregnancy, too!

**Zelena**: I'd love to say that he isn't capable of such a thing, but I can assure you, he is.

**Belle**: No... And I thought that I had time on my side. I guess I don't.

**Zelena**: That's not necessarily true... There may be a way.

### *A Bitter Draught* (Season 6, Episode 2)

**Belle**: I don't understand. Why would you risk your life for me?

**Captain Hook**: Long ago, I... I tried to kill you in the Queen's castle once. I failed. But along the way, I did something I can live with no longer. I laid a hand on you. And there's the matter of my shooting you at the town line.

**Belle**: Yeah, well, you've changed since all that.

**Captain Hook**: Maybe. I have a long road to travel before I can be someone I can be proud of. Despite the forgiveness of others, I must forgive myself, and I'm not there yet.

### *Heartless* (Season 6, Episode 7)

**Belle**: Zelena told me about you and the Evil Queen.

**Mr. Gold**: ...Well then. I know it's trite to say it doesn't mean anything.

**Belle**: Oh, I don't care about what you do right now or with whom you do it. But she also told me about the shears. Now, that... That I *do* care about. She said that you're going to use them on our son the first moment you can, the moment that he's born, to cut him off from his future. Well, I won't allow that. You don't get to tamper with his life just to keep him from hating you, I forbid it.

**Mr. Gold**: Look... The things I do, they're driven by the love of my son -

**Belle**: That excuse, that... That doesn't work anymore. If you were pure evil, like the Queen, then *maybe* I could forgive you, because that's all you could be; but you... You *do* feel love, and you *could* be a good man if you tried. You want your son's love? Don't take it. Be worthy of it.

**Mr. Gold**: And what if I fail?

**Belle**: Listen to yourself. That's just you all over, isn't it? Afraid of failing. That's worse than being evil. That's... That's just being too weak to be good.

### *I'll Be Your Mirror* (Season 6, Episode 8)

**Belle**: (*about Mr. Gold*) He's closed the shop! He hasn't left in days. I know he's up to something in there!

**Zelena**: He's the Dark One. He's always up to something.

**Belle**: Yeah, well, this time he's after my baby. You told me about his plan, you have to get me out of it.

**Zelena**: Yeah, I don't quite see the logic in that. It was just the one favor.

**Belle**: Right. I'm not gonna *leave* until you help.

**Zelena**: (*laughs*) Why would I help you?

**Belle**: Because as much as it pains me to admit, you and I are somewhat alike.

**Zelena**: (*amused*) Why? 'Cause we're *both moms*?

**Belle**: Because we both know what it's like to care about someone who always lets us down. Your sister, Gold... Right? I will not let my son go through all this, okay? You can get us out of Storybrooke. I have seen you make portals before.

**Zelena**: Even *if* I said yes, I can't help you without the sorcerer's wand, and your *scaly* husband has it under lock and key.

**Belle**: Well, then it's a good thing I know just the person to get it from him.

**Princess Jasmine**: Are you serious? You want us to steal a wand from the Dark One?

**Belle**: No. (*points to Aladdin*) I want *him* to steal a wand. He is supposed to be the best thief in town.

**Aladdin**: Best thief in *any* town, just to be clear.

**Princess Jasmine**: (*to Aladdin*) You can't do this. You need to help me find Agrabah, our home. This is a suicide mission which has nothing to do with you.

**Zelena**: Actually, it's got *everything* to do with him.

**Princess Jasmine**: Sorry, who are you?

**Zelena**: You know those golden shear thingies... The only reason they're even *in* Storybrooke is because of your boyfriend.

**Princess Jasmine**: Uh... Actually, we're...

**Aladdin**: We're not exactly...

**Zelena**: Yeah, I don't care. See, when you tried to play hero giving them to Emma, like most acts of idiotic heroism, it failed, and now Rumple's got them.

**Aladdin**: Okay, I don't like this one. You really think that this is my fault?

**Belle**: I think that you used to be the savior. And if there's any part of you that's still a hero, then you are gonna help me escape from this beast.

**Mr. Gold**: I knew that street rat wasn't digging around my shop for himself. And I cannot let you take our child away from me. (*places Enchanted Cuff on Belle*) So now, no matter where you go, I'll find you.

**Belle**: You really *are* a beast.

**Mr. Gold**: Call me what you will, but it comes from love. My love for our child *and* you.

**Belle**: You-You call this love? You're scared, Rumple. I almost won today. And next time, I will run *so* fast and *so* far that you will never even set eyes on this child.

**Mr. Gold**: Let me remind you, dearie, that Rumplestiltskin *takes* children, not the other way round.

**Zelena**: Tell that to your first-born.

### *Changelings* (Season 6, Episode 9)

**Mr. Gold**: You abandoned our son? After everything?

**Belle**: I didn't abandon him! I gave him his best chance at a good life. And after what you did, that is *clearly* a life without you in it.

**Mr. Gold**: Belle...

**Belle**: Rumple, no! It's over. Okay? It's over! There's nothing left for you to say.

**Mr. Gold**: What's his name? What's our son's name?

**Belle**: Why? So you can use it to find him? You can do what you will with me, but I will *never* tell you.

**Mr. Gold**: I would never hurt you, Belle. *Never*. But I *will* find our son.

### *Tougher Than the Rest* (Season 6, Episode 11)

**Mr. Gold**: How is this even possible? How-How are you here? How are you *grown*?

**Gideon**: I've lived a full twenty-eight years. I was in a place where time moved differently, where the Black Fairy raised me.

**Mr. Gold**: Did she harm you?

**Gideon**: Depends what you mean. She toughened me up.

**Belle**: What did she do to you?

**Gideon**: She did many things, trying to make me evil, but she failed. Because in all of those dark years, I always remembered you, Mother. I tried to follow your example.

**Mr. Gold**: So, you're not here to kill the savior?

**Gideon**: No, of course I am. Because once she's dead, I will gain her power, I will be the savior.

**Mr. Gold**: When Baelfire rejected my magic, I respected it. I just wasn't brave enough to follow it. My whole dark life, I've sought out those who are light, like you.

**Belle**: (*about Gideon*] So, what, you *don't* want him to kill Emma?

**Mr. Gold**: No, I don't. That would be an irrational act of someone so blind with pain they think they're reaching for the cure, when, in fact, it's just more poison. I know... I've done it myself. Frankly, I suppose I'm addicted to it, but I *don't* want it for my son.

**Belle**: I protected him, even knowing what he wanted to do. Yeah, it can be easy to rationalize doing the wrong thing, can't it?

**Mr. Gold**: Indeed it can.

**Belle**: Is it too late for us to help him? You must have some plan, some trick.

**Mr. Gold**: I'm sorry. But if there is anything we can do to help him, perhaps that's something we should do together. Not just for us, but for everyone. You heard our son. I fear if we fail, war is coming to Storybrooke.