the sweetest devotion hit me like an explosion

She asked forgiveness and I gave it, but the truth is… I’d forgiven everything she’d done and everything she could do long before that day. For me that was no choice. That was falling in love.

When I was very young, my father took me from the only home I knew. He took me from my mother. “Always be excellent. No one may tear down an excellent Frenchman.” That’s what my father said. And when no one came for me, I thought it was because I wasn’t good enough to be reclaimed. And you know something? My father was right. The more I excelled the less I was alone.

For All Mankind 4x02 - Have a Nice Sol

When we were starting, I was terrified. I've never been so terrified in my career. How do you take on 62, in Russia, speaking Russian? How has she changed? It felt like other than the essential core of who this person was, everything else was different. Trying to figure out how to navigate that over the course of six months, there were just days where it was very hard not to let the actual terror of that take over me. But I also think in some ways the fact that there was so much, there was just a certain point at which I was, you just gotta stop thinking about it and just d o. Every day, just do. It felt like the three seasons were about how the relationships had changed, and the confidence that comes with rising through the ranks. And this season I was just like, holy shit!

 "We look at you and we see you together and it just–it fits. You know? And you just know it’s gonna last forever.”

Odo & Kira