Bridgerton, Season 2

Queen Charlotte:
I yearn for someone fresh, someone unexpected, to turn this season on its head. That is what we need. There is no room for indifference. Apathy is a blight the monarchy simply cannot endure.

Lady Danbury:
Of course, Your Majesty. But remember, a young lady cannot be a diamond until you anoint her as such. So, if, for any reason, you do not find one among the candidates today...

Queen Charlotte:
Do you think she will return? We have heard nary a peep from Lady Whistledown since last season ended. Perhaps the writer came to her senses. Perhaps she realized taking on her Queen was a bad idea and she will never publish again.

Lady Danbury:
It is a convincing theory, ma'am.

Queen Charlotte:
Or she simply left for the country as the rest of us did in the offseason. Bored by the lack of any real gossip. You do know what that would make her, then? One of us.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
It is only out of the greatest love of my family that I aim to choose a bride with my head and not my heart.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
Words of flattery are beautiful and sweet, but they are also hollow unless accompanied by action.

Penelope Featherington:
You've sworn off women, then?

Colin Bridgerton:
Well, for the time being.

Penelope Featherington:
I am a woman.

Colin Bridgerton:
You are Pen. You do not count. You are my friend.

Penelope Featherington:
Of course. Your friend. How good to hear that.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence. You are the bane of my existence. And the object of all my desires. Night and day, I dream of you.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
I have never met anyone like you. It is maddening, how much you consume my very being.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
All I find myself thinking about, all I find myself being able to breathe for . . . is you. Do you think that I want to be in this position? Contending with these thoughts of wanting to be nowhere except with you. Wanting to run away with you. Of acting on the most impure, forbidden desires, no matter . . . how much I must remind myself I am a gentleman, and you are a lady.

Lady Danbury:
We have all been busy keeping the elder Miss Sharma in mind until, as we hope, she recovers. From her fall?

Queen Charlotte:
Of course. I shall send a few necklaces to express my sympathies.

Lady Danbury:
That is kind of you.

Queen Charlotte:
It's not a problem.

Kate Sharma:
Do you want to stop?

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
Just keep looking at me. No one else matters.

Queen Charlotte:
Miss Edwina, have I yet told you about my nephew? He is a prince. And he is available.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
I love you. I've loved you from the moment we raced each other in that park. I've loved you at every dance, on every walk, every time we've been together, and every time we've been apart. You do not have to accept it or embrace it or even allow it. Knowing you, you probably will not. But you must know it, in your heart. You must feel it, because I do. I love you.

Lord Anthony Bridgerton:
I want a life that suits us both. I know I am imperfect, but I will humble myself before you because I cannot imagine my life without you, and that is why I wish to marry you.