General Hospital (1963– )

Constance Towers: Helena Cassadine

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• Helena Cassadine : They don't keep people like us in hell, dear, we'd end up running the place.

• Samantha McCall : You don't want to kill me.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, you've left me no choice. You see, death is what happens to overly confident little girls who intrude where they don't belong.

  Samantha McCall : Well, get prepared, because I am not going to go down without taking pieces of you with me.

• Ric Lansing : Ms. Cassadine, I know you're not stupid. You know you're only hope is to let her go.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, hope? hope is overrated.

• Helena Cassadine : You think you can stop me, Natasha, the coward? You watch me kill your mother.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : I was just a little girl then.

  Helena Cassadine : You were pathetic.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : I'm not a little girl now and I'm going to be damned if I'm going to sit and watch you butcher anybody else again.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, you are damned, Natasha. You were damned the moment you were born, and your mother was damned the instant that she set sights on my husband. You're doomed to watch history repeat it's self.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : History is not going to repeat itself because you are going to be stopped now. I'm going to make you pay now for what you did to my mother.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, your mother deserved it.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : My mother deserved to me loved, and my mother was loved my your husband.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, how dare you. How dare you! Mikkos was my husband. He had me!

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Mikkos hated you.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, he despised you. Your presence in our home was intolerable.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Mikkos hated you, Helena, everybody hates you, Helena. Nobody will love you.

• Helena Cassadine : [to Felicia]  Discussing strategy with you would be like playing chess with a sugar bowl.

• Nikolas Cassidine : Emily, the money will never replace our love for each other.

  Helena Cassadine : Who on earth told you that?

• Nikolas Cassidine : Let her go.

  Helena Cassadine : I am perilously close to losing my temper, Nikolas. Now, keep pushing me and I will end your auntie's pathetic life. Do you want that on your conscience for the rest of your life?

  Nikolas Cassidine : You can't get away with this. You know that.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, you have been consorting with weaklings too long, Nikolas. You've forgotten what it means to be a Cassadine, to defy and have the strength to defy the laws of your inferiors.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Really? Those inferiors will send you to prison.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, I've gotten away with murder before, and I'll get away with it again. I think this time it will be a distinct pleasure.

  Nikolas Cassidine : You're sick.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, and then there's your beloved little Emily. How unfortunate she won't live long enough to marry the Cassadine prince.

• Helena Cassadine : I would never hurt my darling grandson. All I've ever tried to do was protect him and encourage him to fulfill his destiny, but I have to save him from leeches like you and aunt Alexis.

  Emily Quartermaine : I love Nikolas.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, love. See where it's gotten you? Oh, but you put up a good fight. Brava. No, but not that you ever stood a prayer.

• Nikolas Cassidine : I will be evacuated just like everybody else, OK?

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, Nikolas, don't be naive. The fire is spreading. There is no rescue in sight, and not everyone in this room is going to survive, and you have to.

• Ric Lansing : All right, next group, line up, please. Numbers eight through 14.

  Helena Cassadine : I have 11.

  Faith Rosco : Well, looks like I'm leaving.

  Justice Ward : Have a safe trip.

  Faith Rosco : I hope you make it, counselor. But if you die tonight, look on the bright side. Sooner or later, I'll be joining you in hell.

• Tracy Quartermaine : Where have you two been?

  Dr. Monica Quartermaine : We've been with Emily.

  Dr. Alan Quartermaine : My daughter has lost her fiance.

  Helena Cassadine : That's all Nikolas was to you - a boy in love with your daughter. Now, my grandson is gone. He's gone. And I will spend the rest of my life seeing that the Quartermaines pay - every last one of you. Now that Nikolas is gone. I have nothing to live for but vengeance.

  Justice Ward : Mrs. Cassadine, we certainly...

  Helena Cassadine : Retribution is my special gift. Years ago I cursed Luke and Laura. Now Laura's a vegetable, and Luke is slowly drinking himself to death.

  Skye Quartermaine Jacks : Luke survived a lot worse than you - tonight alone.

  Helena Cassadine : I'll make sorrow and regret your constant companions.

  Tracy Quartermaine : You're braking mad.

  Helena Cassadine : Yes, and you will be too, when you've lost your sons as I lost my grandson.

  Skye Quartermaine Jacks : Come on, this is the last thing Nikolas would want.

  Helena Cassadine : Don't you presume to speak for my grandson! His death will be avenged. And you will all pay dearly! You - You most of all.

  Tracy Quartermaine : Good grief! That woman is melodramatic.

  Dr. Alan Quartermaine : Well, Helena's hex obviously solves are liability problem - we'll all be dead within the week.

• Nikolas Cassidine : I'm glad that you survived the fire as well. As much as I've hated you at times. I never really wanted you dead.

  Helena Cassadine : I know that. And I know that, on some level you've always understood my devotion to you.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Doesn't mean I accept or condone all the terrible things you've done. All I'm saying is that maybe - maybe this fire is a change for us to start over, to connect as a - as a family - not that that's even possible. Believe me, I have my doubts about your motivations.

  Helena Cassadine : No, Nikolas, it is more than possible.

• Helena Cassadine : Nikolas?

  Nikolas Cassidine : Hello, Grandmother.

  Helena Cassadine : You're alive.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Yeah. I can see that you're worried, grandmother. But, I'm all right, really.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, It felt like a cosmic joke that you would die in a fire cause by someone else's negligence. After everything I did to save you - yet here you are - the strongest of the strong. Oh, my perfect prince.

• Helena Cassadine : I want you to kill Edward Quartermaine.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : You'll have to kill me first. If you as so much as enter General Hospital, let alone the I. C. U. I will have you arrested for attempted murder.

  Mitchell Coleman : Chill. I'm not going to kill anybody. I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Helena Cassadine : You don't belong here.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : You are so predictable. As soon as there's death and destruction, there you are in the middle of it, foaming at the mouth.

  Helena Cassadine : It's call revenge. Edward Quartermaine practically murdered my grandson.

• Luke Spencer : Look, Mr. Lansing, you have no idea. You have no experience dealing with the Cassadines. The family ancestral motto is "cause as much misery to as many people as possible, " and Helena here is the grand mistress of misery!

  Helena Cassadine : Luke has always been obsessed with me. I suppose it's flattering in a perverse sort of way.

  Luke Spencer : Well, perversity is your best event, Cupcake.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You're just like Emily and Lucky and Alexis. Trying to tell me how I should act, who I should be. That's not going to happen.

  Helena Cassadine : I am your closest living relative, Nikolas. Emily - she was just a distraction, a fleeting romance. She's not worthy of you. And as for Alexis? The Cassidine bastard. She hates us more with every living minute. She would love nothing more to turn you against me.

  Nikolas Cassidine : What about my brother?

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, your half-brother? Well, poor Lucky - his family has been unraveling for years. He's just jealous of you, Nikolas - jealous of your strength and your position.

  Nikolas Cassidine : As opposed to you, right, who has my best interest at heart?

  Helena Cassadine : I have loved you all of your life. You are the reason I live.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You keep alluding to some - some mysterious danger, but you know, so far I haven't heard any facts.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, Nikolas, you've been at the mercy of a spoiled, manipulative, unstable woman for months.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Oh, yeah? Which one?

  Helena Cassadine : Mary Bishop - She's a poor, misguided creature. She's irrelevant. But Emily Quartermaine and her obsession with you - this is the real threat. Nikolas, the line between love and hate is thin one. Oh, Emily professes to have great love for you, but the minute she realizes that she's not going to get what she wants, that love will turn on a dime.

• Helena Cassadine : Oh, go ahead. Defy my wishes. Marry. Embrace happiness when and where you can because your joy is fleeting. My curse is upon you, Nikolas and Emily. Your joy will bring nothing but pain and sorrow to you and yours for as long as you both shall live.

• Edward Quartermaine #3 : You ever pull another stunt like this, you'll wind up in a bed full of tarantulas.

  Helena Cassadine : Well, I had nothing to do with this. No, the curse has a life of its own.

  Edward Quartermaine #3 : The curse is nonsense, and you know it. And if you ever do anything like this, something like this again, I will...

  Helena Cassadine : You have had a difficult evening. As we all have. But for future reference, it's never wise to threaten a Cassadine.

• Tracy Quartermaine : What on earth are you doing?

  Helena Cassadine : This book contains information that could reverse the curse that I put on Nikolas and Emily.

  Tracy Quartermaine : Oh. Any minute now, I'm going to wake up and I'm going to realize that this all has been one ridiculous nightmare. I am not really standing here next to a woman who puts poxes on people.

  Helena Cassadine : Knowledge is power, and a lack of it, weakness. What is done can be undone. I am not going to take that chance again.

  Tracy Quartermaine : Again?

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, my husband found this book, and in it he found the information he needed to reverse the curse that I put on that creature that he impregnated with our pathetic little mouse Alexis. Neither Nikolas nor Emily can be allowed to see this. Not ever.

• Tracy Quartermaine : What about your grandson? You know, the one you profess to love so much.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh, I do love Nikolas with all of my heart. What about him?

  Tracy Quartermaine : Hello? Have you forgotten you put a pox on him, too?

  Helena Cassadine : Nikolas made a choice. Unfortunately, it was the wrong choice. He needs to realize that he can never have a life with Emily. And anyone who ever gets in my way is going to be very very sorry indeed.

• Alexis Davis Cassadine : I know what you're doing to Emily - Exactly what you tired to do to my mother.

  Helena Cassadine : Your mother was a gaudy bauble, something to be purchased for amusement and then tossed away.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Sadly for you, my father was in love with her. That broke the curse.

  Helena Cassadine : And they couldn't stop me, could they? Neither could you.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Nope, not that time. Emily won't end up like my mother.

  Helena Cassadine : Oh?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Even if I have to kill you myself.

  Helena Cassadine : Your ridiculous threats are as empty and as meaningless as your life, Natasha. Now, you know better than to stand against me. You're wasting my time.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : Not that you have much left.

  Helena Cassadine : You silly little mouse. I made you an orphan, remember? Now, would you like me to do the same for your precious little Kirstina?

• Helena Cassadine : I'm telling you what you need to know. Whatever you think you've learned about breaking the curse. I assure you that that's only wishful thinking. If you pursue this, there will be only one outcome. Your precious Emily will die.

• Helena Cassadine : Even if you could break the curse, remember what happened to Alexis' mother.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Are you threatening to kill Emily?

  Helena Cassadine : I'm merely pointing out that we learn from history or we're doomed to repeat it.