Beauty and the Baron Quotes

“Kindness matters most when it is hardest to give, she always said.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“Perhaps the dreadful fate which appears to await me conceals another as happy as this seems terrible.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“For the past two years, I have been trapped in a shadow of anger and regret. I thought I wanted a life of quiet solitude. But you’ve shown me that I can have so much more than I ever imagined. I can have peace and laughter. Even love.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“Perhaps isolation was not truly what he wanted. Perhaps what he needed was a friend.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“I’ve learned that although I have no influence over the decisions of others, I can choose how I respond. Bitterness will not help, and I am determined not to waste my time with it.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“Better to be lonely than used.”

“Perhaps you simply are not friends with the right sort of people. The world is not so terrible as all that.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron

“I cannot say I’ve ever enjoyed reading. I do not have the patience for it.”
“Then you are simply not reading the right books.”
― Joanna Barker, Beauty and the Baron