1- “It’s handled.” -Olivia Pope
2- “You’re frozen in time. You’re holding your breath. You’re a statue waiting for something that’s never going to happen. Living for stolen moments in hotel hallways and coat closets and you keep telling yourself they all add up to something real because in your mind they have to but they don’t. They won’t. They never will. Because stolen moments aren’t a life. So you have nothing. You have no one. End it now.” -Olivia Pope
3- “Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.” -Olivia Pope
4- “This is about you not living a lie. Not hiding. This is about you standing up and being who you are. That’s honorable. That’s brave. That’s heroic. And that’s who you are, Sully. You’re a hero. You fought a war and you were braver than I can ever imagine being. This is just another war. For every gay person who ever wore a uniform. Be brave now.” -Olivia Pope
5- “I’m never out of options.” -Olivia Pope
6- “I want you. I want us. But I want to slow down. I want our business handled. I want our problems fixed. I want to be ready before the world is watching. Once we’re in that spotlight, being picked at and scrubbed and stretched in every direction, we will never get the chance to make things right. If we are broken going in, we’re not getting out, not together. They will destroy us.” -Olivia Pope
7- “I don’t want normal, and easy, and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.” -Olivia Pope
8- “We’re never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal, because whatever happens, there’s always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.” -Olivia Pope
9- “My gut tells me everything I need to know.” -Olivia Pope
10- “I’m working. I’m gladiating.” -Olivia Pope
11- “Speaking to me is a privilege. You do not have privileges.” -Olivia Pope
12- “People want to like who they’re voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper’s throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner.” -Olivia Pope
13- “I am many things, stupid is not one of them.” -Olivia Pope
14- “I don’t do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don’t perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations and I do not take on anything I know I won’t win. And I will win this. I just need you to trust me. I promise you.” -Olivia Pope
15- “I’m choosing me. I’m choosing Olivia. And right now, Olivia is dancing. Now you can dance with me, or you can get off my dance floor. I’m fine dancing alone.” -Olivia Pope
16- “You can do this job and keep your integrity. Just be honest. Be yourself.” -Olivia Pope
17- “If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But you have to try, because if you try, if you leap and you try, and it doesn’t work out, it’s not on you.” -Olivia Pope
18- “It’s me. I’m the thing that needs to be fixed. I’m the thing that needs to be handled. I’m the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.” -Olivia Pope
19- “I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anyone else. And that is not arrogance, that is a fact.” -Olivia Pope
20- “This isn’t how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let’s stop pretending. Let’s just be here.” -Olivia Pope
21- “I am not a toy that you can play with when you’re bored or lonely or horny. I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me! Until then, we are done.” -Olivia Pope
22- “All you can see is God and country and you’re so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.” -Olivia Pope
23- “I smile at her and take off my clothes for you. I wait for you. I watch for you. My whole life is you. I can’t breathe because I’m waiting for you. You own me, you control me, I belong to you.” -Olivia Pope
24- “It’s a dirty little secret. And dirty little secrets always come out.” -Olivia Pope
25- “You don’t want justice. You want anger. You want outrage. You want retribution.” -Olivia Pope
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