Vane & Eleanor Memory Week, Day 3 : Favourite Quote(s)
Eleanor: Don't say a f*cking word. Just sit there and listen. You're right about me, about what I am. I am like you, so I know what you're feeling right now, that I'm asking you to weaken yourself for someone else, for the island's sake, for my sake. But you're wrong. We control something so valuable, the whole of England wants it. We control Nassau, and the ransom we are going to demand for her is going to be f*cking enormous. More than money. More than land. Legitimacy.
Vane: Legitimacy? England is going to give that to you?
Eleanor: When they realize it is the only outcome that makes any sense, they'll have to. And the moment they ratify our control over this place, no more fighting, no more leads, no more chasing our f*cking meals. I'm talking about making money the way London makes money... collecting it, not hunting it, and in amounts that mean something. Give up the girl. Make this deal. Do this with me and we can have a future here together.
Vane: Eleanor, when I take something from a man, his ship, his money, his life, I don't hide behind a clerk. I don't hide behind the law. I don't hide behind anything. I look him in his eye and I give him every chance to deny me. That is legitimate. I know what he wants you to believe, but he's wrong. England's return isn't inevitable. England has no more appetite for taking this place back today than it did yesterday, or last month, or last year, because they know it is inhabited by too many men like me, men who would die before being another man's slave again. Side with Flint, beg them to let you keep what is already yours, show them that weakness, and you'll invite the very outcome you wish to avoid. Side with me and we will show England that this place has never been stronger, and we'll keep our freedom for another day, another month, another year, a lifetime. Hey. Do you believe me?
Eleanor: *Leans in and kisses him*
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I love this scene!
Eleanor knows England is coming and that nothing can stop it. She tries to make Vane see it too, tries to convince him he’s wrong so that she won’t have to go through with what she’s planning. She pleads with him to hand over Abigail so that she won’t have to betray him.
She wants to be with him, and basically tells him so.
But Vane doesn’t believe England is coming and instead tries to convince her to see things his way. He tries to make her see that England won’t grant her what she thinks it will, and instead offers her a life of freedom at his side.
It’s clear they love each other. Under differing circumstances, they both offer to spend their lives together. But they have such drastically different views of the situation and future, that there’s no way either of them can fathom yielding to the other.
It makes for such a beautifully tragic and angst-filled love story!