Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

Catherine

I owe you everything.

Vincent

You owe me nothing. I am a part of you, Catherine, just as you are a part of me. Wherever you go, wherever I am, I'm with you.

Vincent

I've seen your world. There is no place for me in it. I know what I am. Your world is filled with frightened people, and I remind them of what they are most afraid of.

Catherine

Their own ignorance.

Vincent

Their aloneness.

Catherine

Yes.

Vincent

Catherine, I feel the things you are feeling when you do.

Catherine

How do you mean?

Vincent

Just know that it's true and that your pain is my pain. Sometimes it is almost as if we're one.

She can only bring you unhappiness.

Vincent

Then I'll be unhappy. But I cannot forget her. We are still connected.

Vincent, your senses, your empathic powers, are quite extraordinary. It's your gift. And these powers have been heightened by the concern, by the love that you feel, but don't let your act of kindness destroy you.

Vincent

Maybe I have no choice.

Vincent

Catherine, you survived. And what you endured will make you stronger and better.

Catherine

I don't have your strength. I don't know how to do it.

Vincent

You have the strength, Catherine, you do. I know you.

Catherine

How can one man have so much courage and empathy and passion, and so little mercy?

Vincent

Perhaps he lost it somewhere, but he found it again in the end.

Vincent

They hunt for this man as they might hunt for me, if they dreamed of my existence.... By what right do I condemn him? Am I so very different?

Catherine

Yes, Vincent, you are.

Vincent

There is enough fear in your world. I could never bring you more.

Catherine

Forgive me for doubting you.

Vincent

Catherine, you have a right to be afraid.

Catherine

My heart knows how gentle you are.

Vincent

Even the gentlest man has a demon locked inside of him.

Catherine

Not you; not a demon.

It's Catherine, isn't it?

Vincent

I can hear her fears whispering to me no matter where I stand.

She cannot help being afraid, Vincent. Her world is built on fear. It is all they know. The lives they are forced to lead, if they weren't afraid, they would be insane. We have something that they only dream of: a safe place, a secret place, beyond their madness and their fear.

Vincent

Sometimes, I would run down here when we played hide and seek. But... before the game was over, Father, they always found me... even here.

Catherine

I had to come. I had to see you. I was afraid—

Vincent

I know.

Catherine

You didn't come. I called. I banged on the pipes. You never came.

Vincent

I could feel your fear, Catherine. Even now, I frighten you.

Catherine

You taught me to face my fears, always, Vincent. Tell me—

Vincent

What shall I tell you? That I am not this shadow, this man-monster that you hunt? Must you hear the words before you trust? Hear them then, it is not me. Catherine, I would never hurt you. [Catherine takes an involuntary step backwards]

Catherine

No, Vincent, no.... I did not mean to—

Vincent

To pull away? I know. I know your heart, Catherine, but sometimes the words that are not spoken are the truest words of all. [barely audible]... they hurt.

Catherine

What are you saying?

Vincent

We both know what these hands can do, have done. Catherine, if your heart does not trust, then no words I could speak could help.

Vincent, what weighs so heavy? Please? Tell me.

Vincent

She met a man. She's falling in love.

Let her... Let her fall in love, Vincent.

Vincent

My mind tells me to rejoice for her, that she deserves the happiness. But my heart... is dying. I'm poisoned by feelings I've never felt before...Father, it hurts.

I've always dreaded this moment for you and I suppose I've always known it would come. The day when your heart would lead you to long for a life that can never be, Vincent.

Vincent

Yes, a life that can never be...

Vincent

You have a generous heart, Catherine.

Catherine

Something I learned from you.

Vincent

No. It can't be taught. It's from the soul. And you have so much to give.

Catherine

It's all still very new... Sometimes, I wonder, how all those little pieces will ever fit together again.

Vincent

Follow your heart, Catherine. Follow your heart. You must.

Vincent

I knew you were close by...

Catherine

I was never giving up.

Vincent

Every year they ask for the same stories. By now they must know them better than you do.

Well, you know, 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.

The night has a special magic to it, don't you think? This night, especially.

Vincent

Halloween.

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.