Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Faith (2008)

Mary McDonnell: President Laura Roslin

Quotes 

• Emily Kowalski : If he's the one and true God, he belongs to all of us. Otherwise he's not much of a god is he?

  President Laura Roslin : Exactly. He isn't much of a god... he's a fantasy.

  Emily Kowalski : Oh, Laura. And the Lords of Kobol are real? Reigning from a metaphysical mountaintop in those silly outfits? Zeus? Handing out fates out of an urn like they were lottery tickets? "You're gonna work on a Tillium ship. You're gonna be an Admiral. Your family's gonna be evaporated in the attack on the colonies... but you'll survive for three more years in a moldy compartment on a freighter until your body starts to eat itself up alive." Those are the gods that you worship? Capricious? Vindictive?

  President Laura Roslin : But they're not meant to be taken literally. They're metaphors, Emily.

  Emily Kowalski : I don't need metaphors. I need answers.

  President Laura Roslin : You're like my mother. She wasn't satisfied with metaphors either. She was convinced that Aphrodite herself was gonna swoop her away when she died. And she believed it even after the Doloxan and the radiation failed to stop her cancer. She was a teacher! She was... oh, she was something to behold. And the head of a classroom. And her students loved her. They'd walk through fire for her and then they see this woman who seemed so eternal. She withered away and I find myself having to change her diaper because she couldn't even - At the moment she died there was no gleaming fields of Elysium stretched out before her. There was this dark, black abyss. And she was terrified. She was so scared. I'm sorry.

  Emily Kowalski : Laura. Laura, you were terrified. You saw only darkness. You can't possibly know what your mother experienced. You're still searching...