Anton/Quotes

## Before First Curse

### *Tiny* (Season 2, Episode 13)

**Arlo**: Your fascination with the humans and their artifacts is misguided. No good can come of it.

**Anton**: How can you say that when you've never even been to their world? And you won't even let any of *us* go down there!

**Arlo**: Have you forgotten what the humans did? Why we no longer trade beans with them? They weren't content merely traveling between the realms. They had to conquer and pillage.

**Anton**: Just because a few humans did some bad stuff, doesn't make them all evil.

**Arlo**: They don't abide by the same laws that we do, Anton. We giants foster life. They destroy it. That is why they must never know that we still exist, or that we still grow the beans.

**Anton**: But why do we keep growing them if nobody ever uses them?

**Arlo**: It's what we do.

**Anton**: We don't do anything with them!

**Arlo**: It is the labor that makes us who we are. Not the fruit that it yields.

**Anton**: I'm Anton. I'm a giant.

**Prince James**: Yeah, I can see that. What brings you to our land?

**Anton**: I've always been fascinated with your customs. I just wanted to see it for myself.

**Prince James**: Well, we would be more than happy to show you around. Of course, there's the matter of your size.

**Anton**: I’m too small for back home, I'm too big for here.

**Jack**: Don't despair, Anton. I have something that may help you.

**Anton**: What is it?

**Jack**: Magic. A piece of mushroom from a far-off land. I once slayed a Jabberwock that was terrorizing a village, and they couldn't pay me in gold, so they paid me with this, instead. If you eat it, it will change your size. Its effects are temporary, but we have more. I'm pretty sure this one makes you smaller.

**Anton**: Pretty sure?

**Jack**: Well, I haven't had the occasion to try it, but the wise woman who gave it to me swore by its power.

**Jack**: The royal coffers are empty. James and his father are deeply in debt to a neighboring kingdom.

**Anton**: I don't understand.

**Jack**: If James can't pay back what he owes, they'll plunder this realm, and burn it to the ground.

**Anton**: Now I understand.

**Jack**: It's bad.

**Anton**: Will the other kingdom only accept gold coins?

**Jack**: Well, it depends. A magic bean, for instance, would be worth a thousand coins, but... you don't have any of those back home, do you?

**Anton**: No. No beans. We *do* have treasure. Enough to pay off your debts, I bet.

**Jack**: You would help us?

**Anton**: Without question.

**Anton**: (*Prince James and Jack slaughter all the giants*) Everyone else is dead. You can't die too, please!

**Arlo**: I know your path is hard. But someday, you will know which road to choose. And when you do, you will need this. A preserved cutting from the stalk. Plant it. New beans will grow.

**Anton**: You had me salt the land. Nothing can grow here.

**Arlo**: Then someday, you will find new land. (*Arlo dies*)

**Anton**: How? Arlo? Arlo?!

## After First Curse

### *Tallahassee* (Season 2, Episode 6)

**Emma Swan**: (*after trapping the giant*) You have a compass. I need it.

**Anton**: You're going to kill me either way. Go ahead. Kill me.

**Emma Swan**: You don't know me.

**Anton**: I know your kind. They massacred us, and destroyed our beans.

**Emma Swan**: I heard it the other way.

**Anton**: That's because the victors get to tell the story. (*Emma threatens him with sword*) Okay! Stop. Here. (*gives Emma the compass*) See? I'm not the bad guy.

**Emma Swan**: Maybe you are telling the truth. Doesn't really matter. I have to go. Are there any more of you?

**Anton**: No. I'm alone.

**Emma Swan**: (*about the Magic Bean on Anton's necklace*) What's this? Is this a bean? Can this make a portal?

**Anton**: Not anymore. It was destroyed like the rest of them. I wear it as a reminder. A reminder that you're all killers.

**Emma Swan**: You're wrong.

**Anton**: Go.

**Emma Swan**: Why?

**Anton**: Because you could've killed me, and you didn't. You get one favor. Now go, before I change my mind.

### *Tiny* (Season 2, Episode 13)

**Snow White**: We all miss our land, Anton. But this is our home now.

**Anton**: You never think about going back?

**Snow White**: Of course we do. It's just not possible.

**Prince Charming**: We have no way to get there.

**Anton**: How's the farmland here?

**Prince Charming**: Pretty good. Why?

**Anton**: (*takes out a vial with a piece of beanstalk*) The stem is from a beanstalk. If I plant it, it should be able to grow some magic beans. And then, you just may have a way.