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Catherine: They hate me?

Peter: Of course they love me, so it's hard to relate.

Catherine: An uprising is building. They're burning towns down. What would you do?

Peter: You're the Empress, you say: "We're all going beaver hunting!"

Catherine: You're the worst leader imaginable.

Peter: Spoken like someone who's never seen the joy and comradery (camaraderie) engendered by beaver hunting.

Catherine: Letting all pursue their happiness as they see fit.

Archie: That's a pretty good description of anarchy.

Catherine: I have carried a romantic idea of people all my life. Perhaps too romantic. That has changed quite a bit recently. I saw a great love as a kind of perfect love. Maybe it's not. Maybe a great love, like a great country or a great leader even... is a flawed one. Maybe what makes it great is its embrace of our failings, our scars... our f**ked-upedness... as long as we are questing always for better... knowing that we will bring ourselves down as often as we set ourselves free. Maybe a great marriage is simply the ability to hold all that in one tender, yearning heart.

(At Marial's wedding, Peter and Catherine have little speeches...)

Peter: If I may, I would like to wish the couple well. And maybe add a few words on marriage. I understood little about marriage until I met my wife. Now I know it to be a lot like the roller coaster she herself built, ups and downs, exhilaration, a... a slightly terrifying sense that all will go awry and everyone will die. But in the end you stay on the rails... kept there by gravity and the force of your love.

Catherine: My advice to you is to expect the unexpected. Marriage is both a joy and a place where you will be dealt unbearable griefs.

Peter: If love is strong enough, all griefs are bearable.

Catherine: It doesn't matter why he did it. Or how.

Elizabeth: Of course it does. That's where the human being lives, in the how and why, not the should. If you cannot metabolize your pure ideas of love and philosophy with blood and sinew and f**ked-up humans who do their best and fail but try to love and serve you...

Catherine: Everything in me wants to f**king kill him.

Elizabeth: Not everything. Or you wouldn't have to hit yourself in the face.

Elizabeth (to Catherine): We kept it from you to protect you from who your mother was. It was an act of love, not an act of betrayal. Catherine, you're delusional about people, about the world. That is your great gift. But it's a curse as well.

(Catherine find out Peter slept with and accidentally killed her mother...)

Catherine: I'm going to kill you so, so slowly, very painfully, and I'm going to say a lot of French words in a perfect accent as I peel your skin from your body and rub your flesh in rosemary salt.

Peter: I can't stop loving you when you talk, it rushes me.

Hugo (about Peter): Why is he wearing his child?

Agnes: It's disgusting. You never touched our children.

Hugo: Why would I?

Catherine: Hypothetical. A woman who has loathed you, tried to kill you, overthrown you, and imprisoned you walks into a room... and tells you she loves you. What do you do?

Peter: First try and start breathing again.

Catherine: And then?

(throws himself at her, Catherine takes off her corset very fast...)

Catherine: Velcra.

Peter: Science. Love it.

Catherine: I'm ruthless.

Peter: Love that about you.

Catherine: I can be judgmental.

Peter: You don't think that. You think you are just perceptive and precise in attributing everyone's deficiencies and shortcomings.

Catherine: Hmm?

Peter: You laugh because that is what you tell yourself, isn't it?

Catherine: Sometimes I think you're the only person who really knows me.

Catherine (to Joanna): You are always seeking for me to look at reality. Well, suddenly I am, and it is horrifying. You don't believe in me. I've spent my life trying to get you to... and you just don't.

Catherine: I'm just a piece in your perfect tableau. The maestro of marriage.

Joanna: You were born to be a royal wife. You were trained to be a royal wife. Be one and stop this, and live. Darling, your sisters can do it, why can't you?

Catherine: Because I am not them! I'm better!

Joanna (about Catherine): I am saving her from herself. Someone will cut her throat!

Elizabeth: Probably. But she may do much before that happens. This is Russia. We hope for the best, expect the worst, and don't get too exercised about either eventuality.

(Peter's hallucination/dream about his dad...)

Peter the Great: Don't interrupt Daddy when he's talking.

Peter: I thought you were done.

Peter the Great: I was pausing like the great orators do. Note that down.

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