Reign Quotes
Lola: And now I fear your happiness has come to undermine your compassion.
Mary: My compassion is for you! As it is yours that rules you in this moment. Your cage is invisible but it rules you just the same. And has it ever occurred to you that your cage is of your own making? That the bars formed the minute you decided to sleep with the man I loved knowing I loved him still?
Greer: I can't be ruled by desire. It's nothing to build a life on.
Kenna: Isn't it?
Greer: You and Bash? If I have to hear one more tale of the two of you knocking your bed though the floor...
Kenna: Well, the floor is made of stone, mercifully, although we have nearly cracked the bed in two. You can't overlook passion! It's what brought us together.
Your figure's gonna go to hell anyway so you might as well eat up. You are feeding the future King of France!
Catherine
I don't think I've ever been this happy in my entire life.
Francis
Francis: You aren't.
Mary: I am! It's been some weeks now but I wanted to be sure and I am sure. I am with child, our child, at last!
The choice of a god parent for a royal offspring, even an illegitimate one, is more than an honor. We are speaking about who would raise my grandson in the event that neither Francis nor Lola could. I've offered. And been denied.
Catherine
I was wrong. What I asked of you, the backward step. You must know. I want the same
Francis
world as you do, the better one, and the only way to field it is together. We do greater things when we act as one, when we trust each other as equals. This is not a coronation for a King. It is for a King and Queen.
You have a delicate peace to maintain. That is a King's work. And I have a mess to clean up and that is, if you ask your nobles, a woman's work. But, this time, since I got you into this, I don't mind doing it.
Mary
You lie to your guests and then you threaten them with weapons? We will not be treated this way!
Herr Shuller
Mary, this is not about my vanity, this is about my legitimacy! I am a new King trying to fill
Francis
the shoes of a man those people feared. I don't need their fear, but I need their respect. How can I
ask them for it if I can't even get it from you?
Narcisse: An advisor of my choice or regrettably there is no deal.
Catherine: I shall get my grain elsewhere.
Narcisse: You didn't come here because your heart bleeds for your starving countrymen. What are you hiding?
Catherine: Perhaps I'm hiding a bleeding heart.
Asking you to know your place is like asking the sun not to shine.
Francis
