Bleeding Through/Quotes

## Quotes

**Zelena**: You really don't appreciate what you have, do you?

**Regina Mills**: Right. Because *I* got *everything* and *you* have *nothing*. If you want your superpower to be envy, go right ahead.

**Zelena**: Envy's just another word for ambition.

**Regina Mills**: Well, that's just not true.

**Zelena**: You see, I strive for things. *I* work. You? You cast a curse that was just a fancy form of running away. With every advantage, you still turn your back on every opportunity for happiness. You, Regina... You just don't take risks, you don't live your life! It's such a waste! I can see why our mother was so disappointed in you.

**Regina Mills**: Disappointed in *me*? She gave *you* away.

**Zelena**: You have *no idea* what really happened. That's *exactly* what's going to hurt you.

**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.

**Jonathan**: You know, I've watched you this whole week that I've been here. You work in a tavern, but you move like a lady.

**Cora**: I'm just a miller's daughter. I earn a little extra here. Someone once told me to act like what you plan to be, so I try to be a little better than what I am.

**Jonathan**: I wish I could stay, but tomorrow, I must press on. I've already stayed longer than I planned.

**Cora**: Have you? Why?

**Jonathan**: I think you know why. (*drops a cloth with a royal crest*) Oh, that's - I didn't want you to -

**Cora**: The royal crest.

**Jonathan**: I wanted you to know me as me, not as "Prince Jonathan".

**Cora**: Prince Jonathan?

**Jonathan**: With all the noblewomen, I end up feeling like the last kernel of corn in the henhouse. But you? You put me in my place when I'm wrong.

**Cora**: And you are wrong pretty often.

**Jonathan**: This isn't how it's supposed to go, but I hoped to only ask this question once in my life, but I'm going to ask it twice. Once now with this ring made of straw, but I will come back in two weeks and turn this ring into gold. Well, I'll bring you a gold one. And I'll whisk you away to the castle as Princess Cora. Will you marry me?

**Cora**: Yes. Yes!

**Cora**: Jonathan, it's me! What happened? It's been two months. My friends said it was a trick, but I said "no, it must be an accident or a misunderstanding", that I'd find out at the castle. And here you are.

**Jonathan**: You're a stubborn one, aren't you?

**Cora**: Are you the gardener?

**Jonathan**: Well, I'm not Prince Jonathan. Of course, there is no Prince Jonathan.

**Cora**: You lied to me! You took my heart, my virtue. My good name...

**Jonathan**: Took? You practically forced it into my hands when you thought that I was a prince. A harlot is a harlot.

**Cora**: I'm with child. I'm going to have a baby. There may be no Prince Jonathan, but there *is* a prince, and how would he feel when I tell him what you've done? Give me enough to support this child. You stole before, do it again.

**Jonathan**: Yeah, go ahead and tell him. Good luck finding me.

**Cora**: Guards! Guards! There's a scoundrel in the garden! Guards, help me! (*Jonathan pushes over and exits*)

**Prince Leopold**: (*enters*) Are you alright? What happened to you? You were calling for help.

**Cora**: He got away. Just a bandit on the road. He took everything I had.

**Prince Leopold**: I'm so sorry to hear that. Come with me. We'll do everything we can for you.

**Cora**: There's nothing you can do for me.

**Prince Leopold**: Allow me to try. I'm Prince Leopold.

**Cora**: Thank you, Your Highness.

**Prince Leopold**: I'm going to be king.

**Cora**: I gather that happens when you're a prince.

**Prince Leopold**: I want to do right by that gift. I keep telling myself I want to be a man of the people, and then I realize I can't even build a fire - a task every peasant can do.

**Cora**: Well, *this* peasant can fix that. See? Just have to let air get in.

**Prince Leopold**: When the throne becomes mine, I'll need to provide an heir of my own.

**Cora**: You'll have to marry.

**Prince Leopold**: And start a family immediately.

**Cora**: That actually sounds nice. Anyone in mind?

**Prince Leopold**: Yes, Princess Eva from the Northern Kingdom. We've been engaged since her birth.

**Cora**: Oh, is she nice?

**Prince Leopold**: I'll let you know after I meet her.

**Zelena**: You're here for my secret, aren't you? Why a heart? Why courage? Why a brain? Why this particular baby?

**Rumplestiltskin**: And more to the point, why is it of any interest to me?

**Zelena**: Because my secret will reunite you with your long lost son.

**Rumplestiltskin**: My son is not lost. He's *dead*. You watched him die.

**Zelena**: This isn't idle cruelty. I promise you, he's alive and waiting for you to find him.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Find him where?

**Zelena**: Not where, *when*. I'm going to change the past.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No. Time Travel Spells have been written since the dawn of the dark arts, but never cast. It's against the fundamental laws of magic.

**Zelena**: Magic doesn't fail. *People* fail. Laws only exist until they're broken by someone superior.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You? You've deciphered the laws of time travel?

**Zelena**: When that baby is born, I am going back to claim the life that I deserve, and there's no reason that you can't come with me -

**Rumplestiltskin**: To find my boy. Perhaps never give him up...

**Cora**: How dare you! You must have a brain the size of a pixie to show your face in this kingdom.

**Jonathan**: Well, I had to see for myself if the commoner who said yes to Prince Leopold was the same one who said it to me... several times... in one night. That's quite impressive.

**Cora**: In two days I will be princess, and you will bow down and count yourself lucky to pull the weeds at my feet.

**Jonathan**: Been practicing in front of the mirror, eh? You're as much of a fraud as I ever was.

**Cora**: My love for Prince Leopold is true, as is his for me.

**Jonathan**: But does he know how much of you there is to love? Or were you hoping to keep our baby a secret?

**Cora**: What is it you want? Gold? Jewels?

**Jonathan**: Mmm, yes. Whatever you can get. Enough for me to live happily for the rest of my days, just like you wanted from me. Bring it here tomorrow night and your secret shall remain just that.

**Cora**: It will be done. Now leave before someone sees you.

(*Princess Eva eavesdrops*)

**Prince Leopold**: Word has spread throughout the castle that you are with child.

**Cora**: My love, I am so sorry for the terrible trouble that this lie has brought upon you.

**Prince Leopold**: Gossip means nothing to me. I've pledged to marry you, dear Cora, and I will keep that pledge as long as I know I can trust you.

**Cora**: There is no baby. Only my love for you.

**Princess Eva**: (*enters*) You only love yourself.

**Cora**: What is she doing here?

**Prince Leopold**: Princess Eva is here because she overheard your rendezvous in the garden yesterday.

**Princess Eva**: And just as I said, the miller's daughter is a worthless liar.

**Cora**: You awful child. Yes, I was in the garden yesterday. There was a man roaming the grounds. I feared he might steal something, so I made him leave. Whatever else Eva has told you is the invention of a jealous brat who would say anything to marry you.

**Princess Eva**: Check her pockets. (*Leopold finds the jewels that Cora promised to Jonathan*)

**Cora**: No...

**Prince Leopold**: There's nothing left to say.

**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.

**Cora**: (*abandoning her newborn Zelena in the woods*) Poor baby. Life is cruel and full of betrayal. That is my only lesson for you. Now I must give you away, to give me my best chance. As long as I have you, I can never be anything more than a miller's daughter.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Thank you.

**Zelena**: For what?

**Rumplestiltskin**: For showing me something I should have seen long ago. It's never easy for a man to admit he's wrong, but I wronged you, and hurt us both.

**Zelena**: Those mistakes can't haunt us. Not anymore. Soon, history will be wiped clean.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Until then, a gentleman always makes amends for his failings. (*they kiss, but Rumplestiltskin attempts to grab the Dark One Dagger*)

**Zelena**: Sorry, love. Afraid not!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Never on the first date, eh, dearie?

**Zelena**: You just wanted the knife! I hope you enjoyed the taste, because you just squandered your only chance to have your son!

**Rumplestiltskin**: My son gave his life so I could stop you, and I can see only one way to honor that sacrifice, and that's by killing you.

**Zelena**: Celebration's over. Back to your cage, doll.

**Snow White**: I think we've wasted our last day being haunted by the past.

**Regina Mills**: Now we can focus on being haunted by our impending lack of a future.

**Snow White**: Zelena isn't going to win, not with all of us united against her!

**Regina Mills**: Hope isn't easy when I know she holds my heart.

**Snow White**: Which you'll get back, stronger than ever. That's what it means to be the most resilient.

**Regina Mills**: That could be another one of her tricks, too.

**Snow White**: Regina, I've seen what life has thrown at you. And you still fight against the darkness every single day. Sooner or later, your heart *will* find its way to happiness.

**Regina Mills**: That doesn't feel possible.

**Snow White**: But it is. I know you, and you feel things deeply. With or without it, you feel things with your whole soul. Don't let anything hold you back.