— it's a story about a girl who could have ruled a thousand suns, but bowed before a single star.

• 2x08
• lexa: i lost someone special to me, too. her name was costia. she was captured by the ice nation whose queen believed she knew my secrets. because she was mine, they tortured her, killed her, cut off her head. i thought i'd never get over the pain, but i did by recognizing it for what it is: weakness.
• clarke: what is? love? so, you just stopped caring? about everyone? i could never do that.
• lexa: then you put the people you care about in danger, and the pain will never go away. the dead are gone, clarke. the living are hungry.

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• lexa: tell me, clarke. when you plunged the knife into the heart of the boy you loved, did you not wish that it was mine?

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• 2x10
• lexa: don't be afraid, clarke. death is not the end.
• clarke: we are not dying here. i need your spirit to stay where it is.

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• lexa: i was wrong about you, clarke. your heart shows no sign of weakness.

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• 2x14
• lexa: that's what it means to be a leader, clarke. the truth is, we must look into the eyes of our warriors and say, "go die for me."

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• lexa: and you're willing to risk everything on that? on your feelings?
• clarke: yes. you say having feelings makes me weak. but you're weak for hiding from them. i might be a hypocrite, lexa, but you're a liar. you felt something for gustus. you're still haunted by costia. you want everyone to think you're above it all, but i see right through you. 250 people died in that village. i know you felt for them, but you let them burn.
• lexa: not everyone. not you.

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• lexa: i do trust you, clarke.
• clarke: i know how hard that is for you.
• lexa: you think our ways are harsh, but that's how we survive.
• clarke: maybe life should be about more than just surviving. don't we deserve better than that?
• lexa: maybe we do.

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• 2x15
• lexa: you should come with me to the capitol. polis will change the way you think about us.
• clarke: you already have.

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• clarke: they'll all be killed, but you don't care about that, do you?
• lexa: i do care, clarke, but i made this choice with my head and not my heart. the duty to protect my people comes first.
• clarke: please, don't do this.
• lexa: i'm sorry, clarke. may we meet again.

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• 3x02
• lexa: war is brewing, clarke. i need you.

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• 3x03
• clarke: you went to all that trouble to capture me just to let me go?
• lexa: i went to all that trouble to save you.

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• lexa: you're angry, clarke, but i know you. what you've done haunts you, and it's easier to hate me than to hate yourself.

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• lexa: i want your people to become my people. i'm offering skaikru the chance to join my coalition, become the 13th clan. no one would dare to move against you because that would be moving against me.

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• lexa: clarke elevates herself. she's special.

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• lexa: you wanted to see me? i'm here. clarke... i'm sorry... i never meant to turn you into this.

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• lexa: i swear fealty to you, clarke kom skaikru. i vow to treat your needs as my own and your people as my people.

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• 3x04
• lexa: if you’re right, today’s the day my spirit will choose it’s successor and you need to accept that.
• clarke: like hell i do.

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• clarke: i can’t just let roan kill you.
• lexa: if that is to be my fate, you must. you’re driven to fix everything for everyone, but you can’t fix this. i have to do this on my own and you have to let me.
• clarke: i won’t just sit there and watch you die.

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• lexa: i’m glad you came.
• clarke: me too.

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• 3x05
• lexa: you left a hero to your people and you return one. the mountain slayer returns with the body of the ice queen. you bring them justice.
• clarke: you bring them justice.
• lexa: we bring them peace.

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• 3x07
• lexa: when do you leave?
• clarke: now. i'm sorry.
• lexa: don't be. you have to go back to your people. that's why i-- that's why you're you.

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• lexa: the next commander will protect you.
• clarke: i don't want the next commander. i want you.

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• lexa: you were right, clarke. life is about more than just surviving.
• clarke: in peace, may you leave the shore. in love, may you find the next. safe passage on your travels, until our final journey on the ground. may we meet again.

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• 3x16
• clarke: i love you!
• lexa: i'll always be with you!