Beauty and Beast Quotes

“I am trying to apologize to you, Beauty, but I am utterly out of practice. You will find that beasts rarely apologize, if they do at all.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“His goodness was worth saving, and his badness had taught me to accept my own.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I didn’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of thinking they’d broken me.
They had, but they didn’t deserve to be proud of it.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Beast, you’re despicable, and I like you very much,” I amended.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Who knew someone with such a sharp personality could be so soft?” I said, and I felt my lips slow as sleep clawed at them.
“Who knew someone with such a soft personality could be so sharp?” he retorted, though his speech too had quieted. “You’re all elbows.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I could imagine the look on his face: younger and not yet hardened by the passage of time and loneliness. My Beast, reaching out for a lifeline.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“My lonely beast was just the same as his lonely beauty: two of a kind.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Beast was silent, and only after that silence stretched did I realize how vulnerable those words had been, and how bitter. I was thinking of something to mitigate both when Beast said, “You were well rid of them, if all they saw was your face and your past.” I stared at the monstrous curves and angles of his inhuman face, and I saw the human expression — vulnerable and bitter as mine had been — behind it.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Beast’s sharp teeth grinned wickedly. “Then I shall be your scandalous chariot, Beauty. But only because the journey has been so very far. I am not in the habit of playing carthorse.”
“Sensible and fair, Beast. I shall not call on your services again after I have been safely delivered to our destination. You have my word.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“You owe me nothing, Beauty,” he assured me. “Your only onus is to remain; companionship and support were never part of the bargain.”
I laughed, which Beast didn’t seem to like. “No, but companionship and support aren’t usually effective bargaining tools anyway. Too fickle. Too difficult to enforce.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“You do not owe him your unhappiness.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Maybe if I’d learned my lessons with a more dedicated heart, I would be better behaved now, but could anyone truly be erased by zealous teachers and societal pressures?”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Individuality might grate on someone’s nerves, so they had sanded away all my edges until I was beautiful and bland and utterly boring.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Was that approval? Or was that magic twisting his mouth before forbidden words were allowed to tumble out?”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Maybe he did want this. Maybe the requisite pageantry had played a part in his reluctance. It was playing a part in mine.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“The great shadow before me may have had an animal body, but he had the mind of a man at least, and men could be reasoned with, pleased, manipulated.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I had not the time to consider the nature of a monster who valued a rose garden above all things as Father said, "I'm so sorry.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“He talked to me like I was a child and touched me like I was a pet and looked at me like I was his woman, and I was not allowed to help my own father?”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling