Favorite Reign Quotes
Francis: Then be my wife!
Mary: I can't. We've been over this already. Too much has passed between us.
Francis: Too much you blame me for. While Conde remains untarnished. And now you want to go to him, thinking it will erase your pain. It won't Mary. I won't let you do it. No. I forbid it.
Mary: What are you doing to dull you ache for power? Do you really miss sitting on my throne that much?
Marie de Guise: I am dying and I am leaving you alone to a terribly uncertain future.
Lay down your burdens, Mother, so I am no longer you worry. I promise you, I will let no one, not Elizabeth, not any usurper, take my country from me. Since I was a babe, I have been a Queen. Since a child, I have been alone on foreign soil. I know how to keep my life, my crown and I will.
Mary
And yet, here we are only two or three chess moves away from becoming a pair Bourbon kings.
Antoine
Amelie: As to your marriage, I've learned to live with wanting things I can't have.
Francis: Well, that's a lesson I'd like to learn.
Why would he risk your life to keep us apart?
Mary
Francis: So I should stand by, a King, and grant my wife free reign to be with another man?
Lola: I don't know, Francis. It depends on how much you love her. And how much you want her to heal. And to heal yourself.
But if you sincerely believe that your best path to healing is at his side, I will not stand in your way.
Francis
I'm sorry we've come to this.
Mary
Build a future controlled by you, not the changeable heart of a woman.
Antoine
Do we trust each other?
Mary
And now I am lying for you, lying even to my brother, protecting you as you take comfort in the arms of another.
Francis
