American Horror Story (TV Series)

The Sacred Taking (2013)

Jessica Lange: Fiona Goode

Quotes 

• Madison Montgomery : I just love this room, especially the walk-in closet. I need that. And my Warhol Mao would look great... on this wall.

  [laughs] 

  Fiona Goode : Madison?

  Madison Montgomery : Surprise, bitch. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me. How soon can you have all of your stuff out of here? I really need my own room. Oh, and that bed. I can't wait to break it in. God knows it's not getting any action from you, Grandma.

  Fiona Goode : What are you? Who brought you back?

  Madison Montgomery : Are you deaf? I'm the next Supreme. I brought myself back. Looks like you've got some 'splainin' to do. Maybe we should call the Council. Oh, wait. You killed Myrtle, too. Well, that won't matter. We all know the playbook on this. You killed me, so we burn you at the stake. I'm gonna bring marshmallows and graham crackers to make s'mores.

  Fiona Goode : Does Cordelia know?

  Madison Montgomery : That you killed me? Everyone knows. You'll be hash browns by this time tomorrow. Of course, you're half dead already.

  Fiona Goode : Get out.

  Madison Montgomery : Hmm. Poor Fifi. As my powers grow, yours fade away. Let me break this down for you - and stop me if I talk too fast. I'm in, you're out. And you can leave this world one of two ways. You can burn at the stake tomorrow, which would be messy and painful, although very entertaining. Or... you can swallow these pills and go to sleep. Stop suffering. And stop our suffering. The choice is yours.

  [laughs] 

• Fiona Goode : [voiceover]  Meningeal carcinomatosis. That's what the doctor called it. Tiny seedlings that the cancer planted in the lining of my spine. The little bastards are Satan's diet pill. I used to think I understood pain. A burn, a cut, a broken bone. Heartbreak... But this is as if I've been dipped in the River Styx and all the suffering of all the souls that ever were or will be has soaked my body. My body doesn't belong to me - not that I'd want it in this state. I'm starting to look less Samantha and more Endora every day. And what could be more painful than having to tell your child that you're going to die? They say love is the best medicine.

• Fiona Goode : The doctors say it's terminal.

  Cordelia Foxx : Do me a favor. Die before Thanksgiving, so none of us have to suffer through that mess of raisins and Styrofoam you call stuffing.

• Fiona Goode : Where are you going?

  The Axeman : This is taking too long for you to die.

  Fiona Goode : Don't... don't leave.

  The Axeman : The smells - they make me sick. Your breath, your piss, your shit - this whole room smells of death!

  Fiona Goode : I know. I'll die soon. I promise.

• Fiona Goode : So where is this gifted little swamp witch that everyone's been talking about?

• Zoe Benson : This is so incredibly stressful and weird. You don't feel anything?

  Misty Day : My stomach feels like a storm's about to hit, but it's probably just my nerves. I'm not exactly what you call a natural born leader.

  Myrtle Snow : Neither was King George, but one rises to the occasion.

  Cordelia Foxx : Your feet should be getting warmer.

  Myrtle Snow : I'm told it starts as a tingle in the cooch.

  Fiona Goode : For me, it was a classic migraine.

• The Axeman : You are so beautiful.

  Fiona Goode : You're just a fool in love. You like the way I look? Take a picture. A month from now, I'll be a balding and toothless skeleton.

  The Axeman : So run away with me. Paris. Rome. Marrakesh. We can spend that month together.

  Fiona Goode : I don't want you watching me decay.

  The Axeman : Are you scared?

  Fiona Goode : I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of living like this. The constant pain and the ugliness.

  The Axeman : You ever consider making it stop?

  Fiona Goode : No. I wouldn't give anyone the satisfaction of me killing myself. I'll stay alive just to spite them. You know, the only reason my cancer is moving so fast and my hair's falling out like dead weight, is because one of those girls is coming into her own. Flexing her muscle. I just have to figure out which one of those little pecker-heads it is.

• Fiona Goode : Don't let them store me in the basement with that disgraced Russian witch.

• Myrtle Snow : Going somewhere?

  Fiona Goode : Is everyone back from the dead, or have I already died and gone to heaven? Well, I suppose it would be hell, you know.

  Myrtle Snow : I've been resurrected by our new Supreme, young Madison. She rather reminds me of you in your youth, thin as a pin with a dreadful case of the "me, me, me's."

  Fiona Goode : Yes. Well, I wish her the best. I will be... on the island... of Patmos.

  Myrtle Snow : That's not one of the choices, darling. Take your own life or be burned, I believe it was.

  Fiona Goode : No, I'm not ready. I have finally found someone I belong to. Someone I truly love.

  Myrtle Snow : No details, darling. I couldn't bear it.

  Fiona Goode : I am very ill, Myrtle. I won't last long. And he wants to take care of me.

  Myrtle Snow : You haven't thought through this, Fiona. Maybe it's your weakened state. This dream of a perfect love you're clinging to is just a nasty trick life is playing on you. You will die the same way you lived your life - alone and disappointed by everyone. He won't stay till the end. They promise, but... they don't.

  Fiona Goode : You are nothing but an envious old bitch.

• Fiona Goode : Spalding, you don't understand. I am finally... trying to do... something decent... something noble for the coven.

  Spalding : Hmm. Horseshit! You're making a martyr of yourself by giving up. You've been tricked. You've allowed a pack of lesser witches to buffalo you into this ignominious end. I won't permit it.

  Fiona Goode : I don't understand.

  Spalding : They've been running a number on you.

  Fiona Goode : Huh?

  Spalding : Madison Montgomery is not the next Supreme. She didn't conquer death. She was brought back by some dirty little... swamp witch. They've been leading you to your doom with lies. Lies... you swallowed more easily than those pills.