“ | Do you resent me? | ” |
“ | Now, I am certain. We must have switched places...because God has heard my prayer. Is this the will of the empire's guardian deity? | ” |
“ | She has many enemies. But she’s stronger than all of her enemies combined. | ” |
“ | Did you just address me as YOU? Ungrateful brat. | ” |
“ | And I have to have gone mad to overlook your insolence instead of having your heads handed to me on a platter. | ” |
“ | To look down on others from above...to have power over someone's life and death...What's so great about it? | ” |
“ | The person who I wanted to protect with this power is gone now. | ” |
“ | I want to go back to my body! | ” |
“ | Unlike me, Lady Medea is amazing. No one ever doubts her. Even his Highness… | ” |
“ | Do you love Lady Medea, Lord Helio? | ” |
“ | How could anyone not be envious of her? Someone as strong as she is… | ” |
“ | You need to apologize to Lady Medea. You don’t even know her. Yet you’ve been talking behind her back. You should go and apologize. | ” |
“ | People call us the queen and her pawn. | ” |
“ | When it comes to marriage, I think it is enough just to be able to live with someone I love. | ” |
“ | Despite the feelings I have for him…I will comply with the outcome of the contest. I promise. | ” |
“ | The only person who knows what I’m useful for is…it can’t be! Eros wants me dead! | ” |
“ | If it’s true that god switched our bodies to save my life…then yes…only one day would have been enough. | ” |
“ | I’ve never once been happy to be god’s chosen one. | ” |
“ | What is the outside like? | ” |
“ | Why must I believe in a god who claims to love me, but has never appeared before me? | ” |
“ | He was my true god! | ” |
“ | To keep the love of my god…I could never doubt him. And, I could not disobey him. | ” |
“ | I finally realized the reason I was able to endure that life was because I had been ignorant of this wonderful world. | ” |
“ | I prayed with all my heart that if the god my mother had spoken of also truly loved me…my prayer that this peace would last forever would be granted. | ” |
“ | If only I had summoned the courage to speak out. And if only I hadn’t been afraid of the basement. If only I hadn’t dared to dream about the outside world in the first place. If only I hadn’t been born. Then no one I held dear to my heart would have had to suffer! | ” |
“ | I don’t want to be weak at a time like this! | ” |
“ | I shouldn’t have wished for my death. I should have wished to be stronger. Give me just one more chance. I won't run away no matter how much I want to. From now on, I'll face everything head on! | ” |
“ | It's so cruel for you to say such a thing while you're in my body, my lady. But his Highness...loves me... | ” |
“ | How could I have forgotten this simple fact over the past few days? Marquess Niccolo is not a kind person. | ” |
“ | You're throwing away our friendship for power. | ” |
“ | Lady Medea, who I had looked up to all this time, had been living exactly as I had been. How is this any different from the basement that I was confined in. | ” |
“ | Although I'm not the one this happened to, words are spilling out of my mouth as if I'm the one who'd been wronged. Perhaps it's not me who's speaking...but Lady Medea's own anger and frustration bursting forth with every fiber of her being after being bottled up for years. | ” |
“ | How can you be so brazen? You raised me to be the person I am today. I...don't need you father. | ” |
“ | It was that voice which caused the downfall of the duke's family. It was that voice that ordered my death at the birthday banquet. It was that voice that whispered to me, 'I love you.' | ” |
“ | How easily such omnipotence crumbles at the feet of a useless love. | ” |
“ | If Eros sensed something even for a moment I would’ve let it go. If he gazed with awareness even for a second I would’ve forgotten everything and let him fool me. | ” |
“ | You said you learned what love is because of me. You said you would protect me. You said to me you would be my only God. You promised! You never loved Psyche, did you, Your Highness? Not even for a second. You hypocrite. | ” |
“ | Is this a punishment from god? When he kissed me...I knew he wasn't my god either. There is no god that loves me. Maybe it's because I thought that...that the god who gave me this divine power became furious and punished me. | ” |
“ | The princesses in the fairytales my mother read to me overcame their hardships by sleeping. When they awoke from their deep sleep, their prince had already conquered any monsters and hardships for them. But what should I do if it's the prince I want to defeat? | ” |
“ | I guess it had to come to this for me to realize this. Let's break up. | ” |
“ | How can love grow in a relationship full of doubt? Let's break up. | ” |
“ | Out of all his gifts, I've only accepted the sword. What kind of message will that send to Eros? | ” |
“ | I can see it now. His Highness really doesn't know me at all. | ” |
“ | Work, strategy and aside things like that...we've been through a lot haven't we? We've been through so much. | ” |
“ | You are on my side, right? | ” |
“ | This is how miserable and painful it is to deceive someone. | ” |
“ | Because I've been so soft. They didn't even bother hiding the fact that they were spies. It was unnecessary...because I trusted them! Now that I've faced it myself, it is all becoming very real...just what kind of world I've been living in. But this is nothing. I've been expecting it. | ” |
“ | If you're as repentant as you say, you should've left before I came down. Anyone can apologize with their lips. You are still selfish. Nothing is more painful for me than to forgive you. | ” |
“ | The love that I held in my heart for you all those years cannot disappear in an instant. But it can change. Because I loved you deeply, I was deeply hurt. | ” |
“ | He looks at me with those sad and shocked eyes...but he's looking at someone else. | ” |
“ | I want to believe that this power that I’ve had since birth is not a curse from God, but a blessing. | ” |
“ | It’s the same look that has fooled me before. I wonder. How could he try to kill me yesterday and come to see Lady Medea today? I can’t get used to this wretchedness even if I experience it a thousand times. Will you come to understand this feeling someday? | ” |
“ | Culture, common sense, and savoir-faire…she doesn’t have a single thing I can rely on. But at least she has the potential to weather a crisis. I have no choice but to risk everything on that potential. | ” |
“ | However, I knew somewhere deep in my heart…that this was the reason why I couldn’t ignore Psyche. | ” |
“ | The pawn earns its freedom when it gets past enemy lines. It can become a bishop...a knight...a rook...or even a queen. That you are a pawn means you can become anything you desire. | ” |
“ | Seeing how well they get along while competing against each other makes me want to root for the both of them. | ” |
—Citizens of Vasilios, Episode 13 |
“ | Lady Psyche looked as if she really cared for the public…unlike Lady Medea whose policies seemed to cater to the nobles. | ” |
“ | I feel that Psyche could easily betray Lady Medea if need be. | ” |
“ | There’s a limit to how much someone can get over the person they love. She tried all she could, but this is her limit. | ” |
“ | Psyche. You are a star in the sky. You are a diamond in the rough. Hardships will make you stronger. | ” |