Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling
Emily Poirier
Top 10 Best 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.”
“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.”
“You do not owe him your unhappiness.”
“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.”
“Was that approval? Or was that magic twisting his mouth before forbidden words were allowed to tumble out?”
“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.”
“My lonely beast was just the same as his lonely beauty: two of a kind.”
“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?”
“Maybe he did want this. Maybe the requisite pageantry had played a part in his reluctance. It was playing a part in mine.”
“Individuality might grate on someone’s nerves, so they had sanded away all my edges until I was beautiful and bland and utterly boring.”
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