Black Cake
Wednesdays on HuluBlack Cake Season 1 Episode 7: "Birth Mother" Quotes
Young ladies these days are so liberated it's no wonder when these types of predicaments come about.
Doctor
If she ever really loved me, she never would've left me in the first place. I don't want nothing from her, she's not going to save me now, and neither is my pa, and neither are you, so please, just go away.
Covey [to Pearl]
Before I met you, my first born, I was afraid that you would be a reminder of that horrible thing that happened to me then all of a sudden, my past didn't matter. All of a sudden, you were my future, my everything.
Eleanor
I had grown accustomed to pretending. Pretending I was a girl raised by my grandmother in the mountains. Pretending that I was an orphan nurse. And now, I would pretend that I was the same person who walked into that home for unwed mothers, a young woman, unwilling and unfit to be a mother. But I knew something Sister Madeline did not. I knew that love was enough to make me a fit parent that I was enough. I just had to wait until the right moment to prove it.
Eleanor
B and B, I don't know how you will feel after hearing everything I've had to say. You may be upset. You may be asking yourselves if you could ever really know who I am, and this is what I need you to hear. You have always known who I am. Who I am is your mother.
Eleanor
They've been praying for a baby for years, and they've agreed to keep Mathilda as her middle name at my request.
Sister Madeline
