- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: In a way, Your Majesty, you're asking me to go as bait.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: An ugly word for a pretty mouth!
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Words are all I possess. I wield them well.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: May I try to attain what Madame Campan couldn't?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I'm better placed to find the words necessary.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I know these words Majesty. From the books I read to you.