Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

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[to Catherine] If only you could hear the love in his voice when he speaks of her. He has crossed half the world, risked the life, left everything and everyone behind him...all for Anna.

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So many come into your life, Catherine. This one must have truly touched you.

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[signing to Laura] I'm here because I care for you, because I love you. Because I know that you have been unhappy. You could have come to me.

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[signs] Our world choked you?

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[signs] I understand your anger. But is this the right place for you? Are you happy here? Do you love him? You've become a woman. I wish the circumstances were different. You know the message I bring.

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[writing in his journal] It is late. Yet, I cannot sleep. I am thinking of Laura. Cold up there tonight. I can feel it. The chill down through the layers of pipes there to protect us, insulate us. What is happening to her? Can there be anything so painful as watching a child that you love falter in the world? Refuse your help? At what point do you draw quietly away from their lives? At what point do you say, "I am no longer responsible." We taught Laura to depend on herself, to think her own thoughts. Do we now tell her to disregard those lessons, to doubt herself, to change? She is a woman now, no longer a child. What is happening to her up there?

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[signing to Laura] Don't be ashamed. Hate and rage are powerful forces in all of us. Don't punish yourself for feeling them. They're part of us we understand the least, and yet they are the part of us we should try to understand the most.

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She's a rare person. You couldn't have a better guide.

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To leave a safe place and find your way among strangers is a difficult passage for anyone. Fear makes our enemies loom larger and larger.

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[at the Council] Perhaps, instead of concealing the truth from this boy, we should tell him who we are and how we live.

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My very existence lies here within these tunnels. It is my salvation. I could not exist elsewhere. Without this place there is nothing for me. You must never, as long as you live, reveal what you have seen tonight. To do so would mean the end of life for all of us, and the end of our world. You bear the weight of a great responsibility, but it is also a great privilege. You will always have a safe place here should you need it. Now, you must go back to the world Above and carry our secret with you forever, in silence.

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There are no freaks here.

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A life is measured by more than just years. A life in a cage...is no life at all.

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Does justice belong only to the people we know?

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[voiceover] That night, she truly walked alone. And deep within me I felt the cold and 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.

Is she awake?

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Yes. She's very frightened.

How could you bring a stranger down here? To where we live! You ignored our most important rule.

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I know that. But there was no other way.

Do you know what they'd do if they caught you up there? Or found you down here? They'd kill you. Or put you behind bars and make you wish you were dead. How could you?

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How could I have turned my back on her, and left her there?

I don't know what to believe.

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It's all true.