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(Peter reads his speech to Catherine after the coronation...)

Peter: It is a strange thing to hand your crown to another, and yet I feel a peace in my heart knowing I'm handing it to one I love, the one I love who loves our great nation, despite being German. I have seen up close her wiseness and fierceness, and her naked body as it shimmers and glows like God put the sun inside her. I have also been inside her and we have made a Paul together and thus the future of Russia is assured. Give her your fear as you gave it me. F**k with her, you f**k with me.

Catherine: Strangely touching.

(Catherine's speech at the coronation...)

Catherine: Fellow Russians, what is God? When I came here, I stood by a lake and I felt God come out of the Russian mountains and shake me, change me, so I knew what I was, who to love. Russia. I will not constrain love, for it is eternal in all of us, and yet the expression of it unique and individual. What God asks all of us is different. I believe who each person's God is can be as individual. So today, I announce my first proclamation. No more shall we be a one-church country. People are free to worship as Muslim, Hindu, Jew even, or even not at all. God would not constrain our hearts, and nor shall I do Him the insult of doing it. I will not constrain people's love for a deity, for it traps their hearts in fear and I will not lead a land such as this. We may also all have beards again because that seemed like a confusing and trivial rule.

(At the coronation...)

Archie: I bless Catherine the Great, for she is our new...

Peter: You're calling yourself "The Great"?

Catherine: Of course.

Peter: It seems... arrogant.

Catherine: It is if you are not great. If you are, it is just calling things what they are.

Quote from The Great 2x02 | (At the coronation...) Peter: Court, if... Catherine: Oh, you don't talk, my love.

Quote from The Great 2x02 | Peter: Should we have sex? Catherine: I'd rather choke to death on this tiny chicken.

Peter: If there's one thing you didn't like about me... a tiny aspect, and there may not be, probably there isn't, but if there is one thing I could change about my relatively flawless self, what would it be?

Catherine: Your mercurial violence.

Peter: Really? Huh. Father always thought that my best quality.

Catherine: Really?

Peter: Yeah. He'd say, "There's not much going on in there, but give him a knife and light his wick, the boy has something."

Velementov: I have a special vodka given to me by Peter the Great on the day he made me a General.

Catherine: Which you have opened in advance.

Velementov: Uh, taste testing in case it's poisoned. I lay my life before my Empress.

Quote from The Great 2x01 | Catherine: I'm not having sex with you. Peter: Seems rude and also short-sighted. Catherine: I look at you and go dry like sand.

Peter: You sure you want to run Russia? You're a little slow on the strategy front.

Catherine: And yet you are abdicating.

Peter: Toosh. Eh. I always forget the "eh."

Catherine (about pregnancy): It is real, but also not real. And I p*ss myself a lot. And like to eat dirt. You know, I think if God really loved women, we'd lay eggs.

(Catherine sees one of the men spill vodka, topple a candle on top of it, and it catches fire...)

Catherine: Then we get them to come out. You.

Molotov: Molotov, ma'am.

Catherine: Give me your bottle. (takes the bottle and stuffs her ribbon into it) Vodka catches flame. (Light the bottle)

Velementov: No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Y-y-you, no, you need to, you need to...

Catherine: People instinctively run from fire. So, we burn them out.

Velementov: I will not launch a pointless assault. They are trapped, but they are also heavily fortified on both flanks. The central path is a death trap.

Catherine: You can't get in?

Velementov: In layman's terms.

Catherine: Laywoman's.

Velementov: Indeed. But yes, he is trapped.

(Children were playing with a head of a dead man and Catherine took it away...)

Boy: Can we have our head back?

Catherine: No! You can't have the head back!

Girl: B*tch!

Catherine: Empress b*tch!

(Children are playing with a head of a dead man...)

Catherine: Do not demean our nation and yourselves by losing sight of the preciousness of life, yours and his. Ask yourself, what can I make of my life? What intrinsic good can I do that elevates my humanity?

Girl: I don't know what a lot of that means.

Velementov: "Don't be little sh*ts" is what it means.

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