Marco Polo (TV Series)

Lullaby (2016)

Joan Chen: Empress Chabi

Quotes 

• Ahmad : Dark days will soon be behind us.

  Empress Chabi : [chuckles]  The words of a fool.

  Ahmad : Or of a man who has been filled with life by facing death.

  Empress Chabi : Death faces *us*.

  [sighing] 

  Empress Chabi : No matter how we try to look away.

  Ahmad : Your optimism smooths the road ahead.

  Empress Chabi : [sighs heavily]  It's what makes us human, thinking we are administrators of the fates.