King Xerxes: Then marry me... And we shall spend an eternity discovering this truth... together.
Queen Esther: What made you come back?
King Xerxes: I saw them, I saw the stars.
King Xerxes: Of all commodities love is the most cheaply purchased.
Queen Esther: If it is for sale, my lord, it is not love.
Hagai: Where are you from?
Queen Esther: I am... of the wind. Whose sound is heard yet none can tell from whence it comes or where it goes.
Hagai: Well, we gather in an hour. Try not to blow away before then.
Mordecai: God, every day I pray for you to give me the paitence of Job, the wisdom of Soloman. And what do you give me? You give me the endless equivocations... of a beautiful, young woman.
Queen Esther: If I perish... I perish.
Mordecai: You were chosen for a time such as this.
Queen Esther: Perhaps, instead of asking questions of our trials, our trials are meant to ask questions of ourselves.
Answer: No, Xerxes does not kiss her forehead because you see shortly after that, she is still asleep then wakes up. If he had really kissed her she would have felt it and woken up right then.