General Hospital (1963– )

Natalia Livingston: Emily Bowen Quartermaine, Rebecca Shaw, Emily Quartermaine

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• Emily Quartermaine : Jase, you know I think you're perfect.

  Jason Morgan : Ah, I'm far from it, Emily.

  Emily Quartermaine : And it would be perfect if you'd just get out of your own way and just let yourself be happy.

  Jason Morgan : Please, don't do this.

  Emily Quartermaine : You know what? I've heard all the reason's that you and Courtney can't be happy, Jason. I'm not sure I believe them. I'm not sure you do, either. But I'm absolutely convinced that love is precious, Jason, it's rare, and you'd be a fool to throw it away. And my big brother's nobody's fool.

• Emily Quartermaine : I'm not leaving Lucky.

  Connor Bishop : You're big on loyalty, ain't ya?

  Emily Quartermaine : Yeah, something you wouldn't understand.

  Connor Bishop : Hey, everything I have done has been out of loyalty to Mary. Don't tell me that.

  Emily Quartermaine : So that's your excuse for lying, cheating, breaking the law?

  Connor Bishop : Quit stalling, would you? I'm getting out of here and you're going to help me.

  Emily Quartermaine : Well, sorry, you can't sneak up on me in the bathtub and kidnap me this time, so it looks like you're on your own!

  Connor Bishop : How far do you think you can push me? Hmm?

  Emily Quartermaine : I don't care what you do. I won't help you. You'll have to shoot me first.

• Connor Bishop : Why am I the bad guy when Nikolas just confessed to throwing an old lady off a cliff?

  Lucky Spencer : Helena was a menacing witch who deserved what she got.

  Connor Bishop : Do you think a jury will see it that way?

  Lucky Spencer : And Nikolas is going to face charges, and he'll be exonerated. But you won't.

  Connor Bishop : We'll see about that. Won't we?

  Emily Quartermaine : You used my compassion against me and you pretended to have feelings for me, and every phony word was a calculated move for you to get revenge on Nikolas for something he didn't do!

  Connor Bishop : He destroyed Mary and me!

  Emily Quartermaine : No, Mary destroyed herself! Nikolas was a victim of her madness like everyone else. You know what? You are so desperate for someone to blame for Mary's death because you can't face the fact that you started it all.

  Connor Bishop : I'd stop if I were you.

  Emily Quartermaine : You know, you let Mary think that you were dead so that you could sneak home to her? You drove Mary crazy.

  Connor Bishop : Shut up. Shut up.

  Emily Quartermaine : And now the blood of those two innocent kids she killed is on your hands!

  Connor Bishop : Shut up!

• Jason Morgan : Just tell me what you need.

  Emily Quartermaine : I need to figure out how to die. That's what happening even though no one will come out and say it. And I don't know - I don't know how to make it ok for them. They're all so terrified and I have no idea how to help them.

  Jason Morgan : Do - do you really - do you really think this is it?

  Emily Quartermaine : Yes.

  Jason Morgan : OK. Then the time that you have left is a gift.

  Emily Quartermaine : A gift?

  Jason Morgan : Yeah. You just have to use that time to say whatever you need to give the people you love a part of yourself to keep with them.

  Emily Quartermaine : A part of myself?

  Jason Morgan : Yeah, just a part of yourself.

  Emily Quartermaine : I'm so scared. I am so scared Jason.

  Jason Morgan : I know. I know you are.

• Nikolas Cassidine : What are you doing here?

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : I have some bad news. I thought I'd deliver it in person.

  Emily Quartermaine : Sounds ominous.

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : It is.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Well, what is it?

  Jasper 'Jax' Jacks : You were right about Sam. She hasn't given up pursuing the treasure. In fact, she's actively pursuing it with her new partner, Helena. That's right, Nikolas. Granny's back with a vengeance.

• 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 : Ironic - if Helena weren't dead, she'd be proud of me. I Killed my own grandmother. Just like a true Cassadine would.

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, Helena had been terrorizing you. She had you locked up in a mental asylum. She gave you mind-altering drugs. She tried to kill me, Nikolas! You did it to save me.

• Emily Quartermaine : You are a kind, loving, generous person...

  Nikolas Cassidine : No, I'm a killer, just like every Cassadine before me! I have that instinct. I'll never get rid of it!

  Emily Quartermaine : It was an accident.

  Nikolas Cassidine : What? I threw her off the cliff. I told her to join my father in Hell.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You will never forget what you saw me do here tonight.

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, I saw you protect me, fight against a woman who would do anything to kill me. That is what I'll remember, Nikolas. Your bravery and your love.

  Nikolas Cassidine : I should turn myself in.

  Emily Quartermaine : The police were already looking for Helena. She threatened Alexis at knife point, and she's suspected of killing Mary and that nurse. You say that it was an accident and they'll be happy to believe you.

• Emily Quartermaine : Oh, you're really - you're really here. I'm not dreaming or hallucinating.

  Nikolas Cassidine : Don't you know by now that I love you too much to ever leave you?

• Edward Quartermaine : Oh, Emily, I can't tell you how grateful I am that you're safe.

  Emily Quartermaine : You must be a whole lot happier now that Nikolas is gone.

  Edward Quartermaine : No, Emily, now, you know that I opposed your engagement to Nikolas. But I...

  Emily Quartermaine : That hotel was a firetrap, and you knew it! You could have stopped what happened. Nikolas died because of you!

• Emily Quartermaine : No one in your family actually went crazy because of love.

  Nikolas Cassidine : My mother's in a hospital, Emily, remember?

  Emily Quartermaine : Nikolas, Laura had a traumatic experience in her past. That's the reason she's sick. It has nothing to do with Stefan or Stavros. I mean, look - look at Helena. She's indestructible. Why didn't your grandfather's love destroy her?

  Nikolas Cassidine : But it did. Helena's psychotic. She may not wander around talking to herself or sit staring at a wall all day like my mother, but she's definitely insane.

• Samantha McCall : I'm Nervous.

  Emily Quartermaine : All brides are, occupational hazard.

• Emily Quartermaine : Is Nikolas here?

  Mary Bishop : Emily.

  Emily Quartermaine : Yeah, that's right, Mary. I know everything. You found Nikolas after his car accident. He needed a doctor and his family and me, and you kept him away from everyone he loves most! You made him believe he was a deserter! You stole his entire life! And now I am here to give it back to him.connor Bishop is dead, and Nikolas Cassadine is going home with me.

• Mary Bishop : I would do anything for Connor. He knows that. I made him safe. I brought him back from the darkness. You can call it an accident or fate or an answer to my prayer. But the only truth that really matters is that he loves me. And if you really love him as much as you say you do, you'll let him stay with me.

  Emily Quartermaine : Like hell I will.

• Emily Quartermaine : Jason sent me because he thought you might need someone to talk to.

  Samantha McCall : He worries about me.

  Emily Quartermaine : You couldn't ask for anyone better in your corner. No matter what kind of trouble you're in.

  Samantha McCall : You know, actually, it's not all trouble. We just found out we're having a baby girl.

  Emily Quartermaine : Oh, congratulations.

  Samantha McCall : Yeah. I just - I wish this nightmare was over so I could just focus on the baby.

  Emily Quartermaine : You know, the past is part of us, Sam. But getting stuck in it doesn't help anyone. I learned that one the hard way.

• Nikolas Cassidine : You love who I used to be.

  Emily Quartermaine : Don't tell me what I feel. Right or wrong, sane or crazy, whether you ever remember us or not, I love you, Nikolas. I always will.

• Emily Quartermaine : When Nikolas remembers...

  Dr. Monica Quartermaine : He may never remember, Emily!

  Emily Quartermaine : Yes, he will!

  Dr. Monica Quartermaine : You are - you are breaking your own heart by building him up, and you are hurting Nikolas, Emily, by trying to hold on!

  Emily Quartermaine : He isn't like Jason, Mom.

  Dr. Monica Quartermaine : No, no, he isn't. But the situation is. I couldn't let go of Jason. I forced him to destroy the best part of himself, just trying to break free.

  Emily Quartermaine : You aren't responsible for Jason's choices.

  Dr. Monica Quartermaine : I know that. But I can wonder, can't I. wonder if I had given him room, if I had respected what he wanted to do, would we be more than just uncomfortable acquaintance? Would I see him more than three times a year? Every Christmas I wait for him to show up, my brain says it's not going to happen, but my heart doesn't get that message. After all these years, you are a young woman, Emily. Don't do this to yourself. Let Nikolas go!

• Mary Bishop : You hate the idea of me and Nikolas together, but you can't get it out of your head. It makes you sick, it makes you angry, but it doesn't let you go. Isn't that right, Emily?

  Emily Quartermaine : Yes, you lying sociopath. For once in your life, you spoke the truth.

• Emily Quartermaine : You don't have to worry. All right, Nikolas is fine. He's not in any danger.

  Mary Bishop : Stop calling him that. His name is Connor, and he is in danger from you.

  Emily Quartermaine : I know that you loved your husband, Mary, but Connor is dead.

  Mary Bishop : Stop lying. You're not fooling anybody.connor knows the truth, I know the truth. You stole him! You ticked him. You held him prisoner in this house! And you filled his brain with lies. I'm going to have to save him form you once and for all, and for that to happen, you're going to have to die.

• Emily Quartermaine : If all you want is Nikolas...

  Mary Bishop : Connor.

  Emily Quartermaine : Why did you kill Sage and Trent? What did a couple of teenagers ever do to you?

  Mary Bishop : It wasn't personal. The guy shouldn't have been there. And he shouldn't of been helping you keep Connor locked up, either. But the girl - I thought she was you. I was pretty sure you were dead. It turns out she was someone helping you keep Connor away form me. That's not going to happen again.

• Emily Quartermaine : All right, game over, you crazy bitch!

  Mary Bishop : Do it. Do it. Kill me. As long as you know Connor will hate you for it.

• Emily Quartermaine : I've been searching my heart trying to find some sympathy for you, a little compassion. And I imagine that you weren't always like this. It must have been Connor's loss that took your sanity. I try to tell my myself that you aren't responsible for you actions and find excuses for poor, pathetic Mary. And then I realize that that's the exact mistake I have made all along - giving you the benefit of the doubt, looking for the deeper motive. My pity for you gave you the time you needed to keep Nikolas isolated and dependent on you, time for you try and have his baby, time enough for you to feel entitled to him. You are no one to feel sorry for, Mary Bishop. You are a loathsome, cunning, dangerous woman, and I hate you with every fiber of my being. More than anything, I wish that bullet had found its mark. You don't deserve to live.

• Emily Quartermaine : I already knew...

  Nikolas Cassidine : What?

  Emily Quartermaine : How much I loved you. But I never understood how much I needed you until this very minute.

  Nikolas Cassidine : I waited too long to make you my wife. I'm not going to let anything stand in the way of that.

• Alexis Davis Cassadine : My mother and father met when Mikkos was still married to Helena, and they fell in love. Mikkos was as in love as any Cassadine man is capable of being - present company excluded, of course. He wanted to marry my mother. He asked Helena for a divorce. She, of course, denied it and placed a curse on them instead.

  Emily Quartermaine : Then what happened?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : My mother started having mysterious accidents. She started having illnesses that no one could explain. She was a very strong and independent woman who just suddenly lost her spirit. She was even afraid to leave the house. So Mikkos took her away. He took her to Europe, and she came back and it was as if nothing had ever happened, she was fine.

  Nikolas Cassidine : So you think Mikkos did something to lift the curse?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : He did something. He went somewhere, talked to somebody - whatever it was, it went away.

  Ric Lansing : But the curse was eradicated and your mother was fine.

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : She was fine until Helena...

  Ric Lansing : Until Helena what?

  Alexis Davis Cassadine : The curse didn't produce the results that Helena wanted. So she took matters into her own hands - literally - and she slit my mother's throat.

• Tracy Quartermaine : All right, I wanted to stop the marriage. But I had no idea how dangerous Helena could be.

  Emily Quartermaine : Or maybe you just didn't care, Tracy, as long as you believed Helena could help you get what you want.

  Tracy Quartermaine : I'm not the only one in my family that went along with Helena. But when she started hurling curses and you ended up in the hospital, well, I didn't sign up for anybody to die.

  Emily Quartermaine : Why should I believe that?

  Tracy Quartermaine : Did I bring you the book? I certainly didn't have to.

  Emily Quartermaine : Tracy, maybe it's a trick and you're still working with Helena.

  Tracy Quartermaine : Look, Missy, I made a mistake teaming up with Helena. I am trying to fix it. You can either believe it or not. Look at you! You're swooning around whining about some spider bite, and have you - have you bothered to thank me for risking my life for stealing that stinking book from Helena Cassadine? I didn't have to drag it all the way out here, but I did. I didn't have to tell you what she was doing, but I did. I gave you ammunition. Now, why don't you find a way to use it. Why don't you get up off your butt, fix yourself a drink, and fight like a Quartermaine.