Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

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.

Vincent

A boy...rejected by his own flesh and blood for the sake of a tradition.

The law and tradition is the only permanence in a gypsy's life. They are people without a country and they depend on their laws and their traditions to maintain their culture.

Vincent

Yes, but the cost Father...To be abandoned by those you love...The pain would be unbearable.

Tony

I-I've never seen anyone like you before.

Vincent

There's never been anyone like me before.

Catherine

I think he stole a piece of my heart.

Vincent

You helped him find his way home again, Catherine. No one could ever give a child a better gift.

Catherine

It came from both of us.

Winslow

I remember Paracelsus from when I was a kid. Times were bad, resources were scarce, people were scared. Paracelsus took advantage. Oh, he was convincing. Smart. People started to follow him.

Vincent

Not Father.

Winslow

He was the one that saved us. He reminded us that we were a family...that we had to stand by each other. Oh, you'd have been proud of him. His strength. His conviction! Without him...

Vincent

Paracelsus might have prevailed.

Winslow

But...he was never the same after that.

Vincent

Why?

Winslow

Because once, they were friends.

Winslow

So what's on your mind?

Vincent

I'm just...thinking. Wondering.

Winslow

About Catherine

Vincent

If she's really in danger, why can't I feel her fear?

Winslow

We'll get her back, don't worry.

Paracelsus

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Vincent

Paracelsus.

Paracelsus

Milton, actually.

Paracelsus

Now it is your turn to listen. To know my pain, my grief of seeing the only things I ever loved torn away...but it wasn't just me...there were others...You. You were betrayed Vincent. You call him 'Father' but it was I who found you, wrapped you in rags, starving. It was I who named you "Vincent". And it was I who cared fro you all of those months. Even Father didn't think you'd live. But I-I fed you. I...bathed you. And you did live. Don't you see, Vincent? He wouldn't let me take you. When I was exiled he made me leave you behind! I loved you. You were mine...You don't believe me.

Vincent

What would you have me believe...that you loved...and are now capable of this?

Paracelsus

Now is the time for retribution!

Vincent

Then...you never really knew love.

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...What Paracelsus said about your past-

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...beyond everything you could ever hope to know.

Catherine

Yes.

Vincent

And that truth is...love.

Vincent

[after hearing Narcissa's warning] She is my life. I am bound by my heart to go on.

Vincent, the man, who you know as Paracelsus...He is not alone. There are those down here who follow him, protect him. They are the simple ones, the lost ones.

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.

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?

I know Paracelsus. As twisted as his mind may be, it's still very complex, filled with designs and structures. No, Vincent, I assure you; that if he intended to kill Catherine, he would have done so already...He's luring you, calling you away from this place of safety.

Vincent

I have no choice but to try to find her.

I know.

Vincent

Why is he doing this, Father?

Why? Because in his mind you are the one person that prevents his return to this world, a world which he still considers to be his own. Know the consequences of this action may stretch far beyond Catherine...The whole future of what we have built here is in balance. Vincent, you must be careful. Expect anything. Remember, Paracelsus has misled you before.

Vincent

I haven't forgotten.

Vincent

[with Catherine in the painted tunnels] Your world and mine. She tells our stories on these walls. Reminds us that we are all part of one great city.

Catherine

She must be an extraordinary woman to take bare, gray walls and fill them with so much color and beauty.

Vincent

Elizabeth is a mystery even to us. No one knows when she left the world Above or why. She refuses to speak of such things.

Vincent

[after explosion rocks tunnel] Most excavations stop well above our levels, but this new tower sinks its roots deep into the Earth, deeper than any building has ever gone before.

Catherine

The Birch Tower?

Vincent

...if it is not stopped. Father thinks it will be the end of our world.

Elizabeth

Vincent! Come closer, child! Come see what I have been doing. (Shows painting of Vincent and Erik)

Vincent

It is as if you saw it with your own eyes.

Elizabeth

I did in a way. You are not my only visitor, you know. Mouse brings me my paints. Sometimes Mary comes or Sarah. They tell me stories and I put the stories on the wall. So, it is not magic after all. I leave that kind of thing to Narcissa.

Vincent

You have your own magic.