"I've been fighting against hating you for a long time because it didn't feel right. It didn't feel right to have unconditional love replaced by a feeling that's so cold and dead, inside my soul...."

"But you know what? You brought it on yourself. You brought it on yourself when you decided that a woman you KNEW I loved was expendable! There's no coming back from that."

"I was trying to protect YOU! "

"That's what my entire life has been about!"

"You have NO idea, what I've done for you...all I've given up..."

"But I did it..I did it gladly, thankfully, because you were the only light in my otherwise miserable life...you still are"

"And because you are theCassadine future."

"It would have been fine ,if not for Helena. Once again she ruined everything"

"...Frittering away in one year, a fortune that took generations to build. I wasn't going to let you suffer for her foolishness. That's why I took out that damnable loan."

" And then Nikolas, when the creditors tried to kill you, I was desperate to find the funds to repay them. That's why I made arrangements with Lydia's grandfather for the two of you to marry."

"I tried to warn Emily. I tried...to warn her to just go away and start her life with Zander but she wouldn't listen." (looks at Emily and says softly) "Why couldn't you just go away? None of this would have happened if she'd gone away"

"I didn't want to kill Emily, I didn't want to kill Summer. Nikolas. It was you, or Emily. Surely you can understand that Nikolas?"

"When you love someone so deeply, whether it be a child, a husband, a wife..well don't you go to any lengths for that person?"

"Don't you do whatever it takes to protect them? Lie? Cheat? Steal? Even kill for them?"

"Don't you?"

"Surely you can understand that Nikolas"

"Tell me, tell me you understand that Nikolas?"

"PLEASE?"