Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

Catherine

Lightening!

Vincent

I think it was.

Catherine

Vincent, it's raining! (Vincent offers his cloak) No, Vincent it's wonderful!

A couple of years ago he was in here asking for money. Took one look at him and I knew he was on the drugs. The boy, the gift...everything was gone. He looked like a ghost.

Vincent

The ghost of someone we knew and loved. I want Rolly to know there are still people that hold him in their hearts.

Extraordinary!

Miss Kendrick

And sad.

Vincent

Why sad?

Miss Kendrick

He does not know what he is playing. He is just copying what he has heard, like a little robot or parrot. He has no understanding.

But you cannot deny that there is a gift.

Miss Kendrick

It's a gift, but right now it is an empty gift.

Vincent

Rolley's gift was immense. It was fragile. He became lost to us. I don' think there's ever been a young person in the world with more promise and more desire.

Catherine

Are you sure he wants to see you, Vincent, to be reminded of that terrible loss?

Vincent

He won't come back.

Catherine

You did everything you could.

Vincent

Catherine, I feel as if we'll never see him again.

Catherine

But he knows now, that you'll wait for him, that you love him and Vincent, as long as you do, there's hope.

Vincent

Sometimes I can see it all so clearly. I use to come here when I was a child. Wonder about how it would feel to lay in a meadow under the warm summer or see the night sky full of stars.

Catherine

When I was a girl, we spent our summers at a lake in Connecticut. I had a secret place too, a glen. I would lay there in the tall grass and feel like I was the only person on earth. Safe.

Vincent

Yes

Catherine

And if I sat very still, the deer would walk by and not ever see me. I could almost reach out and touch them. It seemed enchanted. It seems so far from the city, like a different world, but it is only two hours away. I wish you could see it.

Vincent

So do I.

Catherine

If only we could be there.

Vincent

We are there. You are taking me there with your words, showing me.

Catherine

Maybe there is a way.

Vincent

Please...Don't even—

Catherine

All we need is a way to get out of the city and up there safely. A van. We could drive up at night. No one is even there at the lake this time of year. Maybe we could really do it. Vincent, let me try to arrange it. If I can, will you come with me?

Vincent

It is something that I never dared wish for.

Catherine

To go there, to share with you, would mean so much

Vincent

Then we must try.

I cannot believe you could seriously envision something so foolhardy and dangerous.

Vincent

You over-state the risk.

Any risk is too great, surely that is apparent. For Catherine to suggest such a thing...

Vincent

An innocent dream, Father, borne of love.

An irresponsible dream borne of selfishness!

Vincent

No!

Yes! Yes, I know because I have had the same dream for you myself, over and over again for so many years. Ever since you were young, I wanted nothing more than to be able to show you the sun, the mountains, things for which you only have words for.

Vincent

This is not merely for myself, Father, but for Catherine as well. This is a chance for us, no more than a moment, the briefest moment, free from the perils and urgency of the time we share.

Vincent, your love for Catherine and hers for you is something that warms us all. But you have a responsibility beyond that, a duty to those down here in this community that depends on you. Who look to you for truth and strength, for hope and protection. Without you their world would be a very dark place.

Vincent

And what about my responsibility to Catherine? Who gives so much and asks for so little? How can I deny her, Father?

Vincent

Am I unable to fulfill even her slightest wish? Tell me, Father, are we forever bound to accept a poem for a sunset?

Vincent, you cannot do this! [Vincent stalks off] Vincent!

Vincent

It was a dream, Catherine.

Catherine

No.

Vincent

A beautiful, but impossible dream that we dare not have.

Catherine

But for a moment I thought it would be possible.

Vincent

So did I. If the slightest thing should go wrong, if anyone were to see us, it would ruin everything that we already have.

Catherine

I know. I'm sorry. I should have never asked.

Vincent

I am the one who should apologize. You ask for so little and there is so much I wish to give you, and so much that I can never give you.

Catherine

And so much more than you do. You must believe that, Vincent. Some people don't even have dreams.

Vincent

One day, we will see that lake, O promise you.

Catherine

And until then, we will keep on dreaming.

Vincent

Catherine?

I am the image of her in you. I am your heart, your mind.

Vincent

Am I dreaming?

Call it what you will. Sleeping. Waking dream.