Beauty and the Beast Novelization Quotes

“The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Against the odds, the Beast had shown her true beauty. He had shown her it was okay to feel lost and made her realize how desperately she had wanted to be found. She had learned that things were not always what they seemed, that people could surprise you. He had given her the one thing she had always longed for - something more.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“People say a lot of things in anger," she said. "It is our choice whether or not to listen.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Hope flared in the Beast's eyes. "Really?" he asked. "You think you could be happy here?"
"Can anybody be happy if they aren't free?" Belle asked softly.
The Beast blinked guiltily, knowing she was right.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Someday, she thought as she slumped against the door, someday i'll find someone who will understand me, someone who will let me be me. Someday i'll show them all. I want so much more than the people in this town could ever understand.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Think of the place you’ve most wanted to see. First see it in your mind’s eye. Now feel it in your heart.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Back in Paris," he said, "I knew a girl who was so different, so daring, so ahead of her time that people mocked her until the day they found themselves imitating her. Do you know what she used to say?"
Belle shook her head.
She used to say, 'The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.'" Maurice paused for a moment, letting the worlds sink in. Then he added. "Behind your back. Never to catch up.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Blue eyes met brown, and them, as dawn broke the horizon, they leaned forward and kissed. It was a kiss Belle would never forget - One better than any in all the book she had read. It was a kiss full of apology, full of thankfulness, and full of deep, deep love. It was a kiss full of enchantment. And ad their lips met, that magic exploded from them to the rest of the castle.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“The Beast smiled slowly at first, it spread across his face until it took over. And it wasn't the scary smile he had first flashed at Belle. It was a warm smile it was a genuine smile. It was the smile of a beast who no longer felt alone. It was the smile of a man who finally felt hope.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“I never thanked you for saving my life" she finally said softly.
" I never thanked you for not leaving me to die" he responded without hesitation, as though he, too, had been waiting to say the words for a long while but had never found the right time”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“She didn't even really see those parts of him anymore. She saw the kindness in his eyes when he looked at her. She heard the intelligence in his voice when they debated literature. And she saw the pride he had in his voice when he looked around.
I'm see the man inside the beast”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Is everything here alive?" She asked, picking up a brush "Hello, what's your name?"
Cogsworth looked at Belle and shook his head "um... that's a hairbrush”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Forget you?" Bella said in disbelief "How could i ever? Everything i am is because of you”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“And Belle? She was an odd girl who liked to read.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“She took the beast's hand. "Let's go home" she said "to the castle"
The beast nodded, and togheter, they placed their hand once more on the pages of the enchanted book, closed their eyes... and pictured home.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“I knew a girl who was so different, so darling, so ahead of her time that people mocked her until the day they found themselves imitating her. Do you know what she used to say? She used to say "The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there" behind your back. Never to catch up. That woman was your mother”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Reflected glory is just as good as the real thing”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“AS ALL FAIRY TALES DO, this story begins with the simplest of words: once upon a time….”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization