Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

It is all being taken away from us, Vincent. The work of a lifetime. Everything we built, lost.

Vincent

What is lost can be found again, built again. As long as we have each other our world will survive.

I wish I could believe that.

Mouse is such a wild spirit.

Vincent

Whatever happens, Mouse will survive. He survived for years by himself. A shadow. Moving about. Stealing bits of food. Watching us.

Until you caught him. I remember how he kicked and screamed.

Vincent

Your heart is full of turmoil.

Catherine

It's Elliot. It was so easy when I thought I was falling in love and even easier when I was certain that he was evil.

Vincent

Now, you see him as he truly is good and bad, strong and weak. Capable of great deeds and great wrongs. A human being.

Catherine

Yes, and with human feelings, I feel like I am trading in his feelings.

Vincent

Catherine, no!

Catherine

I have to. It's the only way. With Luz discredited, nothing stands in the way of the tower. Elliot leaked the story. I'm sure of it. Luz stood in his way, so he removed her, and used me to do it.

Vincent

How can you even consider a union with such a man?

Catherine

He's a human being, strong and weak, good and bad. You said so yourself, Vincent. And he loves me, as much as a man like Elliot can love.

Vincent

But you do not love this man!

Catherine

No. But there is more at stake than just me here. The painted tunnels, Elizabeth, Father and Mouse, all the children who have found safety Below. And you, you most of all..Vincent, you have risked your life for me a hundred times. How can I stand by and watch your world be destroyed when I have the power to save it?

Vincent

I cannot allow you to sacrifice yourself in such a way.

Catherine

I'm sorry, Vincent, but it's not yor decision. I'm going to marry him. I have to.

Vincent

I thought I would never see your face again. When you walked away from me, there was such resolve in your heart.

Catherine

That was the hardest thing I have done in my life.

Vincent

And the noblest.

Catherine

Every step was like a knife inside me. All of my love for you was calling me back.

Vincent

But a greater love drove you onward. Your strength saved us all. Yet, I share your melancholy.

Catherine

I was just thinking of Elliot. Vincent, you helped me find the best part of who I am but, Elliot, he has lost more than his tower, he has lost himself.

[referring to Vincent's relationship with Catherine] I sometimes feel that I'm standing on the bank of a raging river watching you try to swim across. How can I not worry? I'd be a fool. And yet, Vincent, sometimes I have to marvel at your courage.

Vincent

Catherine swims across that river as well. She faces the same dangers, shows the same courage. And in many ways the toll on her is even greater.

You really think that's so?

Vincent

On the other side of the river there is no one standing on the bank watching. On her side of the river there is no one praying for a safe passage. On her side of the river, Father, there is no one but Catherine.

Then I shall stand watch, and pray, for both of you.

Vincent

Catherine, your mother's memory reminds you of your aloneness. Of the family you lost when she died. Of all the friends you left behind when our paths crossed. Because that secret you carry now, our secret, sets you apart-from your pat, your friends, even from the family you are yet to have, the children waiting to be born. Catherine, the burden you bear with that secret is your aloneness...Know that our bond, our dream, exists at the cost of all your other dreams. Know that, Catherine.

Catherine

It's worth it.

Vincent

I'm here...Catherine...Tell me.

Catherine

Tonight I went to a piano recital. I was actually feeling okay. And then I sat down, and he started playing the Grieg Piano Concerto, the one that we heard in the park that night.

Vincent

Was it beautiful?

Catherine

Yes, it was beautiful.And I kept remembering how much you loved it. And I wanted you there with me, so badly. It became unbearable to me. Almost physically painful! I just had to run. I actually ran from it. What are we going to do? We have to do something, before there's nothing left for either of us!

Vincent

This was the risk we faced.

Catherine

And now, what?

Vincent

Now...Perhaps we awaken from our dream, return to our lives.

Catherine

Vincent...I don't think I have the strength to continue.

Vincent

Then you mustn't continue.

Vincent

Catherine, it must end!

Catherine

No!

Vincent

It must!

Catherine

I don't want that! How can you say that?

Vincent

To see you in such pain, because you dare to love...knowing that I'm the reason, the cause of that pain, is more than I can bear to live with! It mocks our dream. So it must end...Catherine, you have a life, waiting to be lived. Let the memory of what we are, of what we shared, remind you that love, in its deepest and purest form, exists...Use that memory to give you the the courage to love someone else.

Catherine

I can't.

Vincent

You must.

Catherine

Oh, forgive me! Forgive me for doubting! What we have is all that matters! It's worth everything!

Vincent

Everything?!

Catherine

Ah, I love this part.

Vincent

Yes, it's beautiful...What makes you smile?

Catherine

Everything! This is a wonderful spot.

Vincent

I've spent many an evening here. I've heard all the great music...here.

Catherine

The sound is remarkable. It's like we're in the first row.

Vincent

We're just under it.

Catherine

I have been to coming to concerts in the park all my life. It's strange to think there might have been nights we were listening to the same music...that you were so close!

Vincent

I come here and the music engulfs me and...I can feel the presence of everyone sitting just above us. You'll see- when the music ends, you'll hear the fragments of conversations echo throughout the chamber and -and footsteps...And then, all will be very still again.

Catherine

The stillness...didn't it make you feel...

Vincent

Alone? Sometimes and sometimes I found a wonderful peace in that stillness.