Beauty And The Beast Quotes

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
― Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
― Aya Ling , The Ugly Stepsister

“She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past. she reminds us of what we used to be.

She reminds us of what we could be.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“And what good is a voice when so few will listen?”
― Stacey Jay, Of Beast and Beauty

“And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“My father once said we are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“It was her favorite story, that she remembers, but she would be hard-pressed to retell it now, faithfully, as it had been told to her. All she could recall were frayed, sleep-watered images of a forgotten castle in the middle of a wild forest, stone statues, crimson roses, and a dark, animal presence never seen, but which stained her memory of the tale, even past its edges to the daylight after.”
― Ava Zavora, Belle Noir: Tales of Love and Magic

“Since you are so kind as to think of me, be so kind as to bring me a rose, for as none grow hereabouts, they are a kind of rarity.”
― Jeanne Marie Beaumont

“After four months, grief shouldn’t hurt this much. Shouldn’t threaten to rend her heart in a thousand pieces.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reaction

“Some curses fade and leave nothing but the faintest mark, a tea stain on watered silk. There are those that are so malevolent that, upon defeat, explode in a fiery burst of sulfurous flames, burning everything they touch as they die. Others dissolve like morning mist in the brightness of the midday sun. Some cannot be defeated at all, but feed upon the energy spent trying to vanquish it, growing more and more potent with each failed attempt.

And then there are those ancient curses with deceptively simple antidotes that shatter like jagged shards of a vast mirror.

These curses may be broken, but never completely destroyed, sharp slivers of light distorted.”
― Ava Zavora, Belle Noir: Tales of Love and Magic

“None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“All her life, she'd loved books. She loved the look of them, the smell of them, the sweet weight of them in her arms. Most of all, she loved the feeling she got every time she picked one up-the feeling of holding an entire world in her hands.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“We are fortunate to serve a God who loves new life and second chances.”
― Bethel Grove, Redeeming the Beast: A Devotional Adventure through Beauty and the Beast

“I look at the sacrifice Belle made for her father and ask myself "Would I be able to do the same?”
― Bethel Grove, Redeeming the Beast: A Devotional Adventure through Beauty and the Beast

“Knowing that the quality of our lives will be judged by how well we love others should be a challenge to all of us”
― Bethel Grove, Redeeming the Beast: A Devotional Adventure through Beauty and the Beast

“When her kiss transforms the Beast, she is furious.

'You should have warned me! Here I was smitten by an exceptional being, and all of a sudden, my fiance becomes an ordinary distinguished young man!”
― Fernand Noziere, Three Gallant Plays

“It isn’t every day a beauty begs me to show mercy to our beast.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories

“Belle trusted that her earthly father had her best interest at heart. Do you trust that your Heavenly Father has yours?”
― Bethel Grove, Redeeming the Beast: A Devotional Adventure through Beauty and the Beast

“Take heed, my sweet,
For you shall rue
The day you found
In me a foe;

And what, you ask,
Is my revenge?
You will not understand,
But I will tell:

To think you know
When you know not;
To think you see
When you are blind;

No might can break,
No wit cast off,
This curse with which
I bind thee;

Your cunning plans,
Your strength of will,
Alike shall fail
To free thee.

It can be broken, yes;
The way of that is hid;
You never shall break free,
As none before you did.

A lowly thing,
A gentle thing,
May break the spell at last;

But hope is vain
That wastes itself
On such a hopeless task.”
― Bethany Kohler, Trompe l'Oeil: Beauty and the Beast Retold

“One day, he’s going to push Kel too far and we’re all going to watch his metal guts get strewn across the castle. And the worst part is that his body will be so mutilated, we won’t ever know what he looks like, even after his death.”
― Elizabeth Helen, Bonded by Thorns

“So, Prince Farron, where do we start?”

“Just Farron, please.” He pulls me back into the main foyer of the library. “I’m not much of a prince these days. Hard to rule your realm when you turn into a slobbering beast each night.”
― Elizabeth Helen, Bonded by Thorns

“Of course, we must still exercise a great deal of caution. For while he may be persuaded to let us live... a beast can never be fully tamed.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories

“I want to believe in magic. And maybe, in a way, I do. I believe in the magic of moments, of hope. I don’t believe that magic will cure my mother, but I do believe that it was some sort of magic that led me to all of you. I believe you were meant to find me. Just as you were meant to find each other.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories

“And that is how our waterfall remains hidden. Those who dare not stray from the path will never know it’s there,” Calo replied.
“How did you find out it was there?” Mira asked Calo.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Calo grinned. “I strayed from the path.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories

“It's true what the folktale says: I did choose to live with the beast. But not for the reason you think. Not to save my father. Not even to save myself.

In truth, I was hoping I'd be eaten.”
― Elizabeth Lowham, Beauty Reborn

“To Merveilleuse's surprise she comes across a large ram in a clearing, with gilt horns and a garland of flowers round his neck, reposing on a couch of orange blossom beneath a pavilion of golden cloth. But still, a ram, with his nose like an ink blot, flies on his white lashes, wool the color of curds. Around him a hundred gaily decked sheep graze not on grass but coffee, sherbet, ices, and sweetmeats, whilst partaking in games of basset and lansquenet.
Soon he takes her into a cavern, which is a gate to his underworld kingdom. It has meadows of a thousand different flowers; a broad river of orange-flower water; fountains of Spanish wine and liqueurs. There are entire avenues of trees, stuffed with partridges better larded and dressed than you would get them at the finest Paris restaurants; quails, young rabbits, and ortolans. In certain parts, where the atmosphere appears a little hazy, it rains bisque d'écrevisses, foie gras, and ragout of sweetbreads. His palace is formed by tangled orange trees, jasmines, honeysuckle, and little musk-roses, whose interlaced branches form cabinets, halls, and chambers, all hung with golden gauze and furnished with large mirrors and fine paintings.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies

“Listen, I've been thinking. "A dangerous pastime," I say. "Yeah - wait, what?" He waves his hand like he's annoyed with me. No one can blame him, considering I'm making Beauty and the Beast jokes while we're talking about his sister's murder.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“Beauty never comes with a caution note.”
― Yarro Rai, The Prose will be forgotten

“It is from within that the darkest of beasts are born. It is also from within that the brightest of light shines.”
― Yuz'ki, Beauty turned Beast