Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

Flower Child (2018)

Emma Booth: Mother Gothel, Eloise Gardener

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• Gothel : [of humans]  They'll pay. Every one of them will pay.

  Flora : No. Instead, you find a place to grow anew. That is your responsibility now. Remember what you were destined to blossom into. My daughter, all mothers know that only goodness can bear sweet fruit.

• Seraphina : How many are dead?

  Mother Gothel : All of them. I wiped the land clean.

  Seraphina : May the Gods forgive.

  Mother Gothel : There's nothing to forgive. It's not even permanent. Some slimy lump will flop ashore, crawl towards humanity again. And as is their way, it'll be worse. I shudder at the thought of what destructive civilization they'll create next. This time, they'll do it alone in a cold world because now they've created something that's never been before. A land without magic.

• Eloise Gardener : Nature's witches, words unheard, our wishes worthless, worse than dirt. Until we learned what we were worth, to turn our hurts into your burns. Our purest urges now emerge. Old for nursery, dark for church. Close the circle. Purge the earth.

• Eloise Gardener : I just want to talk.

  Tilly : Why the hell would I want to talk to you?

  Eloise Gardener : Because I'm your mother.

  Tilly : ...No. That's not possible. My mother left years ago. So either you're a liar, or a monster. Because what kind of woman abandons her child?

  Eloise Gardener : I know I was selfish. And it's no excuse, but the world was... it was cruel to me. And I became cruel, too.

• Eloise Gardener : I've been a gardener my whole life, and I can honestly say there's no greater pest than humanity.

• Flora : What is before you is a great honor. The mantle of "Mother" will be yours.

  Gothel : But I want freedom.

  Flora : Well, when I pass the mantle onto you, you will be mother of all of the magic in the land. That is freedom.

  Gothel : Then why does it feel like a prison?