- Young Simon: [to Vallier] I shall be reborn. My breath in the heavens, bear witness. We shall be free. We'll we be loved. If you do truly love me, let your love be known unto me.
- Countess de Tilly: We must all take our leave of each other eventually. It is Nature's law...Don't cry.
- Countess De Tilly: One must never confuse nobility and love: a state of the mind and a state of the soul.
- [last lines]
- Older Simon: [Older Simon grabs Bishop Bilodeau by the back of the neck and holds a knife to his throat.]
- The Bishop: Kill me.
- Older Simon: [Older Simon kisses the Bishop]
- The Bishop: Kill me.
- Older Simon: [Hands knife to Bishop] Never, Bilodeau, never.
- Countess de Tilly: They say a French woman is coming into town, flying in a marvelous red balloon.
- Count Vallier de Tilly: The kind one sees in ones dreams?
- Countess de Tilly: No, Vallier, the kind one sees in Paris.