Beauty and the Beast Quotes
Father: Eli, part of our dream here has always been to offer a place of encouragement to those whose gifts have been overlooked and unappreciated.
Catherine: Vincent?
Vincent: Shhh.
Catherine: You're here?
Vincent: I'm here.
Catherine: I dreamed about you.
Vincent: About me?
Catherine: Yes. We were walking down Fifth Avenue, sky blue...
Vincent: And then?
Catherine: You bought me ice cream. And no one looked twice.
Catherine: It was a year ago, tonight.
Vincent: How remarkable you are, remembering such a dark moment, with dancing lights.
Catherine: It's a time for celebration. I found hope again that night. I found you.
Catherine: Until you came into my life, Vincent, I'd forgotten how it felt to know that there is someone thinking of me. Someone who knows who I am. Someone that I'm connected to.
Vincent: Every moment since that night, I'm reminded of what a gift life is.
Elliot: I do live this city. The thing is, you can't walk a block without seeing somebody or something that absolutely knocks you out, stuns you.
Catherine: The good, the bad and the utterly absurd.
Elliot: Yeah. Yeah, and its constantly changing. Constantly transforming itself, reinventing itself. It's unbelievable--it's always expanding.
Bridget: The night has a special magic to it, don't you think? This night especially.
Vincent: Halloween.
Bridget: In the Old Religion they call it Samhain. It's a night when the walls between the worlds grow thin, and spirits of the Underworld walk the earth. A night of masks and balefires, when anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems. Your city has its own magic as well. The lights, towers... listen to it.
Vincent: Can I lead you through the darkness?
Catherine: There is no darkness, Vincent, when you're with me.
Vincent: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
Devin: That pretty well describes it, doesn't it?
Vincent: Our childhood?
Devin: My life... This used to be my favorite book.
Vincent: On Tuesdays, anyway.
Devin: Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Joe: Radcliffe! Have I gotta talk to you!
Catherine: What's up?
Joe: I met this woman last night...
Catherine: Congratulations! Where'd you meet her?
Joe: I met her at the grocery store.
Catherine: Well, that's a healthy start.
Joe: Radcliffe, this is serious. This isn't just any woman. In fact, she isn't like any other woman I've ever met!
Catherine: So she wasn't wearing Spandex?
Catherine: Being here... makes me realize what I've been missing all along--the chance to be with you. I wasn't sure if this time would ever come. That I would ever be so certain. But you know it's always been a dream.
Vincent: For both of us.
Catherine: I want to stay.
Vincent: Catherine...
Catherine: You know me, Vincent. You know what I'm feeling. I want to live in your world. I don't want to go back.
Vincent: ... I don't want you to go back.
Vincent: (vo) Our world sleeps... and she is near. Strange... wonderful... and sad. This feeling, rising in me like a tide... To have all I ever dreamed of, so close... And yet to know that... All I know is that she is here, and that I must live for her, surround her, easily, guide her out of suffering. While she is here I must live moment by moment, for her.
Vincent: Catherine... every moment that we share is a triumph and a gift. And every one of those moments is a lifetime, complete. There is no failure. It doesn't mean our dream can never be. It just means that now is not the right time. You came here to grieve, and to begin to heal. But now your destiny is to be in both worlds. You are a woman of both worlds. That is who you are.
Catherine: But my heart is here.
Vincent: And my heart is with you. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you take me. You stand for me. For us. For our dream. Your carry our light. That too is your destiny.
Catherine: Do you think that someday... Will we ever be together? Truly together?
Vincent: Only if and when we understand how great the sacrifice is. How large the fee is. And are able to move through them.
Catherine: I'm not scared.
Vincent: Catherine, we are something that has never been. And our journey is one that none have ever taken. We are just now setting out. We must go with courage, and we must go with care.
Vincent: Three thousand miles. That's a great distance to be apart from someone.
Catherine: Someone close.
Vincent: How long will you be away?
Catherine: A week, maybe. Is there something you'd like me to bring you from California? (He nods.) What?
Vincent: Yourself, safely home.
Vincent: There was a moment... I thought you were in great danger... There was nothing I could do--I wanted so desperately to reach out to you!
Catherine: But you did, Vincent. I could feel you watching over me. I heard you call out! ... Vincent, you saved me...
Vincent: Catherine, this... this bond we share, this connection...
Catherine: Yes. It's that strong!
Catherine: Vincent... Don't go. I need you close.
Vincent: I'll watch over you. Don't worry. Sleep now.
Vincent: I dreamed of this.
Catherine: The two of us, in the sunshine.... Vincent, you are so beautiful.
Vincent: Catherine, I'm a part of you. What you see in me is the beauty in your heart.
Catherine: It's all so perfect. This moment. I've never been so happy.
Vincent: If only it could last forever.
Catherine: It can. It will! I love you so much!
Catherine: That she could forgive Jerry... that took courage. That's the rarest kind of love.
Vincent: To surrender yourself completely to your heart. To trust in it fully. To believe in it without doubting.
Catherine: To let it guide your life.... Somehow, Laura's found the way.
Mouse: What's it like, Vincent? To have a love?
Vincent: People have been searching for the words for centuries. I think for each person it must be something very different. For me... it was the beginning of a new life... and the end of my aloneness.
Winslow: Vincent... I want you to know that I'm not just doing this because of Paracelsus. It's for Catherine, too, she's... a good woman. I always said that. What's between you two is something I've never felt, myself. But seeing it--I know it's real. I believe in it.
Vincent: That night, she truly walked alone. And deep within me I felt the cold, terrible truth of all that kept us apart. Fate had left me adrift, with no wind to carry me to the safe shores of her love.
Vincent: I'm here. Always.
Catherine: Always. Such a father's word, always.
Vincent: Please know this... That I will protect Catherine, watch over her, and love her... until my last breath.
Father: You miss her.
Vincent: I miss feeling her near, knowing where to find her.
Father: How fortunate you are, Vincent, to know that feeling.
Vincent: Yes.
Father: So, until she returns, you'll simply have to put up with me.
Vincent: I found myself on Catherine's balcony.
Father: There can be little comfort in that, when it's empty.
Vincent: I wanted a sense of her.
Father: What did you find?
Vincent: Only her absence.
Father: What about your... your connection to her? Your bond?
Vincent: I feel it. At a distance. She is so far away.
Father: But you can feel it?
Vincent: Oh yes.
Father: Then trust in that, Vincent... It's a remarkable thing, to feel the beat of a woman's heart, on a distant shore.
Vincent: You wrote that the price of your love had been high, but that you would pay it willingly until the end of your days. That you would change nothing, regret nothing!
Bridget: That's damned unfair of you, you know. Quotin' me own words back at me again, after I gave you all that good advice! The brain tells you all the sensible things to do, but the heart knows nothin' about sense. And the heart is as stubborn as the Irish.
Father: I never dreamed I'd one day look on Catherine with the fondness that I do.
Vincent: It's been a time filled with things we never dreamed of. It's been the most miraculous year of my life.
Father: You know, you two share something quite extraordinary. Something that touches the best in all of us.
Vincent: To hear those words coming from you, it must.
Father: You mean, there's still hope, even for an old man like me?
Vincent: Always.
Mouse: We have rules here too. Break the rules, get in trouble. I know!
Devin: Remember what I told you? About the secret place where I was born? It's right over there, across the bridge. It's full of music, and candles everywhere you look... and the people, they're like a family.
Father: This world was built on the foundation of fairness and respect for all. No, we do not renounce violence altogether. If we are attacked, we will fight to protect our home, but we will never instigate that violence! And I will not allow this community to be dragged down to that level!
Vincent: Catherine... On the journey, I felt for the first time, as if somehow you were lost to me. I knew you were in danger and yet I could sense no fear.
Catherine: I was afraid, Vincent, but I couldn't allow myself to feel the fear.
Vincent: You didn't want to draw me.
Catherine: I couldn't.
Vincent: You would sacrifice so much...
Catherine: I would sacrifice everything, for you....
Vincent: We were going to build a raft together. Huck and Jim on the Mississippi. I had other friends, others who grew up with me in the tunnels, but Devin... Devin was the only one who... was irresponsible enough to dream dreams that included me.
Vincent: Winslow knew the truth all along. He valued love enough to die for it, as something worth protecting at any cost. He knew it as the force to bind us together, and in the end, his death allowed our love to live.
Father: Vincent. Come and take a look at these. Mouse's diagrams for his new... project. A ventilation system for the deepest chambers. Conceptually brilliant, but quite impossible to execute. Still, I suppose even Da Vinci had his off days.
Joe: I'm a deputy D.A. Joe Maxwell, crime fighter. I left my cape with my other suit.
Catherine: You are being very trying, Kristopher!
Kristopher: I can't help it! I'm an artist!
Catherine: An artist, I know! Since when is invasion of privacy a part of the creative process?
Kristopher: I follow my heart.
Catherine: Well next time you may just follow it past the Louvre into the city jail!
Pascal: I studied everything he ever wrote. The early manuals were brilliant. Codes, schematics... It's hard to believe he's the same man.
Vincent: Paracelsus is not the same man. What he's done proves that.
Pascal: Oh, I know that. It still makes me sad... All that intellect and energy, just...
Winslow: You got a heart like a soft-boiled egg, you know that?
Catherine: Your baby is about what can be, not about what is. If you don't believe that then nobody will.
Vincent: Sometimes, if you let your mind go, you can believe things you would have never thought possible.
Reporter: Mr. Burch, what is the estimated value of the collection and what prompted you to donate it to the museum?
Elliot: Can you put a price tag on magic? The true value of art lies in its ability to influence and enhance the quality of humanity. And contrary to popular opinion, I believe New Yorkers still qualify.
Father: There's a truth beyond knowledge.
Tony: Being alone makes you tough.
Catherine: Well, sometimes 'tough' doesn't make loneliness go away.
Vincent: To leave a safe place and find your way among strangers is a difficult passage for anyone.
Vincent: Fear makes our enemies loom larger and larger.
Lisa: That's something you should always remember, Samantha. You see, eighty percent of a woman's charm is in her mystery.
Lisa: Dreams begin right where you are. Right here. Right now.
Vincent: Sometimes your fear can keep you alive. You should listen to it more often.
Father: Old stories are rather like old friends. Every once in a while you have to drop in on them, just to see how they're doing.
Bridget: Sometimes we must leave our safe places and walk empty-handed among our enemies.
Bridget: We must take what we're given. Three hundred days, a few months...
Catherine: Or a single night.
Vincent: Sometimes, events in our lives can show us what we've known all along.
Stephen: Maybe it's better to forget and smile than to remember and be sad.
Vincent: Mine is not the only voice.
Father: It's the truest, and the strongest.
Charles: But your face is--
Vincent: A mirror, like yours. Where frightened men see the shape of their own fears, and small men see only ugliness.
Vincent: The very part of me that I struggle to overcome gives me the power to protect the people who protect me, who give me life.
Father: Vincent, that is not your fate.
Vincent: My survival depends on this world. There is no other choice for me. For me there is no other place, Father.
Catherine: What you did was necessary. Let me share your pain.
Vincent: How can you even look at me?
Catherine: Because I know you. I know who you are.
Vincent: You do not know me.
Catherine: Vincent, there are dark places in all of us.
Vincent: A part of me feeds in that darkness. And I am lost in it.... Leave me now... please.
Catherine: I love you.
Catherine: I always loved Idylls of the King. I even knew some parts of it by heart. Some nights I've dreamt of Camelot. And Lancelot.
Vincent: Lancelot was fatally flawed. Destined never to find the grail.
Catherine: Still... he was the greatest knight of all.
Lisa: You've changed! ... Oh Vincent, you are my most special memory, in all the world.... I'd forgotten how quiet you are.
Catherine: I wonder if I'll ever not be surprised to see you there.
Vincent: No child ever had a better education.
Father: And I promise you Vincent: no father ever learned more from any child.
Donald: He's a lucky rogue.
Catherine: Who?
Donald: Whoever the hell you're looking for.
Hughes: Vincent... what are you?
Vincent: I am only what I am. If you cut me I will bleed. If you strike me, I will strike back. And if you keep me in chains, I will die.
Catherine: Professor Hughes, I don't know how to explain this to you, I don't even pretend to understand it, but Vincent and I are connected. I know him. And I know that... whatever he is, he's also the best part of what it means to be human. And if you take away his freedom, you take away that very part that makes him most human!
Catherine: He's overcome tremendous hardship. He's suffered great pain. Yet, he has the most beautiful spirit. The most generous heart of anyone I've ever known.
Nancy: When all is said and done, you've got to follow your heart. It's the only thing you can ever really count on.
Catherine: That's what Vincent always says.
Nancy: Will we ever meet him?
Catherine: I'm beginning to think that anything is possible.
Catherine: What is it, Vincent? What are you thinking?
Vincent: How ashamed I am, that you saw me as I was. How grateful I am that you were there. You saved my life, Catherine.
Lena: Mary? Can I ask you something?
Mary: Of course!
Lena: I heard Father talking back there, about Vincent.
Mary: What did you hear?
Lena: Not much. Just that he's different from everybody.
Mary: Vincent is very special to us. In some ways it's his fate, his life that holds us all together. He protects us. And we protect him.
Lena: Will I ever get to meet him?
Mary: You'll meet him.
Catherine: It's Vincent?
Lena: I love him.
Catherine: I know. So do I.
Vincent: You have the strength. You have the courage. We both know that. So you must use them.... I only wish I could be there for you. Keep you safe. Always.
Catherine: You are.
Vincent: Stop. You must.
Catherine: I can't. I have to see this through.
Vincent: If I ever lost you...
Catherine: Vincent, you're the one who taught me to face my fear, and to find courage! I can't pull back now--it would compromise everything--me, the case, even what you think of me! I have a chance to bring down the men responsible for all this! I have to!
Vincent: A life without you... would be unbearable.... Take great care.
Vincent: Don't die, Catherine. If you die, so do I.
Vincent: How beautifully you read.
Catherine: I remember the first time you read to me. How safe I felt--the comfort I found in your voice. I wanted to share that.
Catherine: I didn't know where to go.
Vincent: You're here, now.
Catherine: I've been walking, everywhere. Like I'm looking for something. I don't know.
Vincent: Catherine, what you're looking for is inside you.
Catherine: I'm losing myself! ... I can't go back there.
Vincent: Catherine--
Catherine: There's nothing for me there. I tried. That life isn't mine any more!
Vincent: Give yourself the time, to mourn.
Catherine: Vincent, I need to be with you. I need you... I need you!
Vincent: ...Come.
Vincent: Before I left, Father told me something that I am just now beginning to understand. He said that there is a truth, beyond knowledge. Everything you could ever hope to know.
Catherine: Yes.
Vincent: And that truth... is love.
Vincent: Our bond is stronger and deeper than either of us can begin to imagine.
Father: As if both your... destinies were inextricably linked.
Vincent: Yes.
Father: As if your hearts, in their search for union, could transcend time and space, circumvent the laws of physics and probability.
Vincent: Yes.
Vincent: She speaks with her hands--a beautiful language.
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