Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

We Are Both (2012)

Josh Dallas: David Nolan

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Quotes 

• Regina Mills : Surprised you don't have armed guards 'round the clock.

  David Nolan : Don't need 'em. We both know if you step outside, there's a line a mile long for your head.

• David Nolan : I'm here to buy something... a way to find someone.

  Mr. Gold : What, like a map?

  David Nolan : Something with a bit more kick. Like the ring you gave me to find Snow.

  Mr. Gold : Ah, yeah. Magic. Whom are you following?

  David Nolan : Not telling.

  Mr. Gold : So, do you have something of theirs, this missing person?

  David Nolan : Yes.

  Mr. Gold : May I see it?

  David Nolan : No.

  [smiles at Mr. Gold who chuckles back] 

• [David is rehearsing a speech to the people of Storybrooke, with little success] 

  Henry Mills : No. Keep going. You were onto something.

  David Nolan : No, I wasn't. I did the fighting, Snow did the talking.

• Regina Mills : Maybe you should be less concerned with hats, and more concerned with taking care of my son.

  David Nolan : [sarcastically]  Oh, because you took such great care of him.

  Regina Mills : I will not listen to childcare lectures from a man who put his daughter in a box and shipped her to Maine.

• David Nolan : Frustrated, are we? Serves you right. You earned every bit of this.

  Regina Mills : Keep on baiting me, Charming! Right now I don't have magic and I don't have my son, but when I get one, I get the other. And you don't want to be around when that happens.

  David Nolan : If you have to use magic to keep your son, you don't really have him.

• Dr. Whale : Hey, let me ask you something. Are the nuns still nuns, or can they, you know, date?

  David Nolan : Uh, I don't know. Blue!

  Dr. Whale : Don't say it's me asking.

• [Jefferson is not very inclined to help David get into the Enchanted Forest] 

  David Nolan : I'm the closest thing left to a sheriff here, so I can just throw you in a cell until you figure out a way.

  Jefferson : Then all we'll do is both sit, stuck - two lives in our heads, cursed worse than ever. Two lives forever at odds. Double the pain; double the suffering.

• David Nolan : Look, I get wanting to leave here, I do. And I get that it's easier to let go of bad memories, but... even bad memories are part of us. David, Storybrooke David, was- is... weak... confused. And he hurt the woman I love. I wouldn't give up being Charming just to be him. But you know what? I wouldn't make the other trade either. Because that David reminds me not only of whom I lost... but of who I want to be. My weaknesses and my strengths, David and the Prince, I am both. Just like you. You are both. The town is both. We are both.

• David Nolan : [to the townspeople trying to leave Storybrooke]  If you cross that line, you're gonna be lost! Everyone who loves you will lose you. But there's something worse: you'll lose yourself. Look, I get wanting to leave here, I do. And I get that it's easier to let go of bad memories, but... even bad memories are part of us. David, Storybrooke David, was, is... weak. Confused. And he hurt the woman I love. I wouldn't give up being Charming just to be him. But you know what? I wouldn't make the other trade either. Because that David reminds me not only of whom I lost... but of who I want to be. My weaknesses and my strengths, David and the Prince, I am both. Just like you. You are both. The town is both. We are both. Stay here, and every choice is open to you. Live in the woods, if you want. Hell, live in a shoe, if you want! Or eat frozen burritos and write software. Let's open Granny's, and the school, and get back to work. I will protect you. She won't be able to hurt any of us, not as long as I'm alive. Not as long as we all come together. As we did before! As we shall do again.