Cinderella/Quotes

**Rumplestiltskin**: Was she? Do you know what this is? (*shows fairy wand*)

**Cinderella**: Pure magic.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Pure *evil*. Trust me – I've done you a favour. All magic comes with a price. Go on back to your life and thank your lucky stars you still got something to go back to.

**Cinderella**: My life... It's wretched.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Then change it. You can't handle this.

**Cinderella**: Wait, please wait. I *can* handle it. Please, I will do anything to get out of here, *anything*!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Anything?

**Cinderella**: Do you know how to use that wand, Mr. -?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Rumplestiltskin. And yes, of course I do.

**Cinderella**: Then help me.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, if I do, and you can, indeed, shoulder the consequences, then you'll owe me a favour.

**Cinderella**: Name it. What do you want?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Something precious.

**Cinderella**: I have nothing.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, but you *will*. (*looks at wand*) With this wish will come riches more than you know.

**Cinderella**: I care nothing for riches. I'll give you anything you want. Just get me out of here.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Now we're talking.

**Cinderella**: Well, how does it work?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Fear not! My needs are small and all you have to do is sign on the dotted line. (*conjures a contract*) Do we have a deal?

**Cinderella**: Yes.

**Cinderella**: I'm pregnant.

**Prince Thomas**: Ella, that's wonderful! Why are you upset? This is what we wanted.

**Cinderella**: There's something else. When we met that night at the ball, it wasn't my Fairy Godmother who sent me. It was Rumplestiltskin. I made a deal with him for this life. I was stupid. I didn't understand the price of magic. So, I promised him something.

**Prince Thomas**: What did you promise him?

**Cinderella**: He tricked me. I thought that he would want our gold or jewels.

**Prince Thomas**: What was it? (*Cinderella rubs her stomach*) Our baby?

**Cinderella**: I'm so sorry. And now, I'm going to lose it all! My life, you -

**Prince Thomas**: No. I don't care what that imp said. Magic may have brought us together, but it didn't create this love.

**Cinderella**: But I made a deal. I can't break that – he's too powerful!

**Prince Thomas**: Then, the answer is simple. We make another deal.

**Prince Charming**: (*to Cinderella about Rumplestiltskin*) He's accepted a meeting with you. You're going to tell him that Doc heard something with his stethoscope – two heart beats.

**Prince Thomas**: You're going to tell him it's twins.

**Prince Charming**: And if he wants both, which he will, you propose a new deal. Grumpy. (*Grumpy presents a quill*)

**Cinderella**: A quill? I don’t understand.

**Grumpy**: The Blue Fairy cast a spell on it. Whoever signs with this will be frozen – their magic made impotent.

**Prince Charming**: All you must do is get him to sign the contract.

**Cinderella** I'd like to alter the bargain.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That's not what I do.

**Cinderella**: I think you'll want to. I'm having twins.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Is that so? Ooo! Let's have a look. And you would, what? Give up both? Why is that, I wonder?
**Cinderella**: My husband, he's... He's having a hard time. Our kingdom is poor, we're losing money, our crops are dying... We can't support ourselves or our people.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And you would trade your other child for comfort?

**Cinderella**: I can always have more children, but I can’t make crops grow where the soil is dead. In exchange for our other child, you will see to it that our land is once again fertile. I think it’s more than fair.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yes! Yes, yes. It is. If what you’re saying is true.

**Cinderella**: It is. And all you have to do, is sign on the dotted line.

**Rumplestiltskin**: What a lovely quill! Wherever did you get it?

**Cinderella**: It's from our castle.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You know, the only way to stop me is through magic.

**Cinderella**: I'm not trying to stop you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Of course you're not. Because, as we all know, all magic comes with a price. And if you were to use it to, say, imprison me, then your debt to me would only grow. And we wouldn't want that, now, would we?

**Cinderella**: Just sign the contract, please.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Are you sure you're happy with this new arrangement? Then so it shall be. (*Rumplestiltskin takes the quill and is immobilized*)

**Cinderella**: Thomas!

**Rumplestiltskin**: No one breaks deals with me, dearie! No one! No matter where you are, no matter what land you find yourself in, I assure you – I will have your baby!

## During First Curse

### *The Price of Gold* (Season 1, Episode 4)

**Ashley Boyd**: Last night, I felt contractions and the doctor said that the baby could come any day now.

**Emma Swan**: Well, that's great!

**Ashley Boyd**: It's just that, um, when the... When the baby comes, no one thinks that I can do this. No one thinks I can do *anything*. Maybe they're right.

**Emma Swan**: Screw 'em.

**Ashley Boyd**: What?

**Emma Swan**: Screw them. How old are you?

**Ashley Boyd**: Nineteen.

**Emma Swan**: I was eighteen.

**Ashley Boyd**: When-When you had a kid?

**Emma Swan**: Yeah. I know what it's like. Everyone loves to tell you what you can and can't do, especially with a kid. But ultimately, whatever you're considering doing or giving up, the choice is yours.

**Ashley Boyd**: It's not exactly what you might think it is.

**Emma Swan**: It never is. People are gonna tell you who you are your whole life. You just gotta punch back and say, "No, this is who I am." You want people to look at you differently? Make them. You want to change things? You're gonna have to go out there and change them yourself because there are no Fairy Godmothers in this world.