- Cookie Lyon: ...your damn father's out of prison.
- Hakeem Lyon: Dad is out of jail?
- Cookie Lyon: I guess you missed that while you was up in here, livin' la vida loca.
- Anika Calhoun: [to Cookie] I get it, I get it. You are *the* baddest bitch ever. You are badder than all the animals whose prints populate your wardrobe, okay?
- [a bunch of fans are crowded on Empire HQ's footsteps]
- Jamal Lyon: Can't stop a king from speaking to his subjects.
- Lucious Lyon: That's blasphemy. I'm a god.
- Andre Lyon: Why'd you ask us here, Jamal? So you can kill us all together, instead of having to do it one at a time?
- Lucious Lyon: [to Cookie] You and me, we done been through a whole lot. But at the end of the day, we are family. And I want my family together, and if I can have that, I'll let go of everything else.
- Lucious Lyon: I know y'all can't eat without me, 'cause all y'all got is pride. And it's chewy, and it's hard to swallow.
- Cookie Lyon: You got me twisted, O.G. I'm always gonna eat, just not with you.