Quotes
"What is that line you use? Ah, yes, once upon a time...there was a little girl who loved her father very much." (Grande Dame)
"You look like a *girl*!" (Gustave)
"I had hoped to present a little angel but I suppose you'll have to do." (Auguste de Barbarac)
"Ladies, say hello to your new...stepsister." (The Baroness)
"It's tradition. He always waves at the gate." (Danielle)
"Oh, no, not again." (Queen Marie)
"Forgive me, your Highness, I did not see you." (Danielle)
"Your aim would suggest otherwise." (Prince Henry)
"I wish only to be free of my gilded cage." (Prince Henry)
"Why don't you sleep with the pigs, Cinder-soot, if you insist on smelling like one?" (Marguerite)
"Nothing is final until you're dead and even then, I'm sure God negotiates." (The Baroness)
"You said it was a matter of life and death." (Prince Henry)
"A woman always is." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Prince Henry suffers from an arrange marriage, Signor, among other things." (Captain Laurent)
"Remember, you are nobility. You look down for no-one." (Gustave)
"He's not property at all, you ill-mannered tub of guts!" (Danielle)
"A servant is not a thief, Sire, and those who are cannot help themselves. If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" (Danielle, quoting Sir Thomas More)
"Am I to understand that you find me arrogant?" (Prince Henry)
"Go...catch a chicken." (The Baroness)
"Someone's been reading in the fireplace again. Look at you, ash and soot everywhere." (Marguerite)
"Unbelievable. She ignores the manor, blames me and the staff for her debt and still pretends to have money to burn." (Danielle)
"May I present Marguerite Francoise Louise of the House of Ghent...and Jacqueline." (The Baroness)
"The only throne I want her sitting on is the one I have to clean every day." (Paulette)
"Well, here's your chance. He's headed this way." (Gustave)
"You cannot leave everything in the hands of Fate, boy; she's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"My father’s edict seems to have created quite a stir. I’ve never seen so many women out for a walk. Someone might have been killed." (Prince Henry)
"Looks like rain." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Now, let's say God puts two people on the earth and they're lucky enough to find each other...and one of them gets struck by lightning. Then what? Is that all? Or, perchance, say you meet somebody new and marry all over again? Was it the second lady you were supposed to be with or was it the first? And, if so, when the two of them were walking side by side and they were both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first...or was the second one supposed to be first?" (Prince Henry)
"You have everything, yet the world holds no joy." (Danielle)
"That's not fair, Sire, you have found my weakness and I have yet to learn yours." (Danielle)
"I thought it was quite obvious." (Prince Henry)
"I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens." (Danielle)
"You swim, you climb trees, you rescue servants...is there anything you cannot do?" (Prince Henry)
"Fly." (Danielle)
"Why is it men never ask for directions?" (Danielle)
"Who are you and what have you done with my son?" (King Francis)
"You have two hands. Make it yourself." (Danielle)
"Consider carefully, Danielle. Your father’s book or your mother’s shoes...though neither will save you from a sound lashing." (The Baroness)
"Oh, wonderful! I was beginning to think she was a ghost." (Queen Marie)
"Why did you have to be so wonderful?" (Danielle)
"And I feel as if my skin is the only thing keeping me from going everywhere at once!" (Prince Henry)
"I would rather die a thousand deaths than see my mother’s dress on that spoiled, selfish cow!" (Danielle)
"It is a strong woman who keeps her wits about her with you trying to steal her heart." (Queen Marie)
"Yes, and what a clumsy thief I turned out to be." (Prince Henry)
"For once in your life, man, be bold!" (Maurice)
"Yes, I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"A bird may love a fish, Signor, but where would they live?" (Danielle)
"Then, I shall have to make you wings." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"When you’re as old as me, boy, now is all you have." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Breathe, just breathe." (Danielle)
"Do not address me so informal, Madame. I am a Prince of France and you...are just like them." (Prince Henry)
"I know that a life without love is no life at all." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"And love without trust, what of that?" (Prince Henry)
"Men are so fickle. One moment they’re spouting sonnets, and the next you're back to being the hired help." (The Baroness)
"And we thought we had problems." (Queen Marie)
"I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love. But, I would feel like a king if you, Danielle de Barbarac, would be my wife." (Prince Henry)
"How was I to know he’d come flying out the side door? He was supposed to be getting married!" (Jacqueline)
"Of course not Mother, I’m only here for the food." (Jacqueline)
"All I would ask, Your Majesties, is that you bestow upon her the same courtesy she showed me." (Danielle)
"Marguerite, I don't believe you've met...my wife." (Prince Henry)
"I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment and never think of you again. But you, I am certain, will think of me every day for the rest of your life." (Danielle)
"I must say, Leonardo, for an artist of your talent...it doesn't look a thing like her." (Prince Henry)
"You, sir, are supposed to be charming." (Danielle)
"And we, Princess, are supposed to live happily ever after." (Prince Henry)
"Says who?" (Danielle)
"You know what? I don't know." (Prince Henry)
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