Mary quotes from Beauty and the Beast

Mary

Home. Children. I help the children grow. I nurse them when they are sick. Teach them. I love all of them as if each one was my own. I lost my own. To lose a child is to lose everything. It was here that I found family again. The children are safe here. This is our safe place. I tell them it will be here for them always.

The world above us is cold and gray, summer a distant memory. Our world too has known its winters, so each year we begin this feast in darkness, as our world began in darkness.

Vincent

Long before the city above us raised its towers to the sky, men sought shelter in these caverns.

Mary

In those days, these tunnels were dark places and those who dwelt in fear and isolation.

Vincent

This was a land of lost hope and twisted dreams, a land of despair, where the sounds of footsteps coming down a tunnel were the sounds of terror. Where mean reached for knives and rocks and worse at the sound of other men's voices.

At last a few people learned to put aside their fear.

Mary

And we began to trust each other, to help each other.

Vincent

Each of us grew stronger, those who took the help and those who gave it.

We all were a part of one another, one family, one community. Sometimes we forget this and so we meet here each year to give thanks to those who have helped us and to remember, even the greatest darkness is nothing, so long as we share the light.

Darkness almost engulfed us, but our unity gave us strength. Our shared light showed us the truth. As we part for another year let us remember. Darkness is only the absence of light...and all winters end.

Mary

Pascal, why are you leaving so early?

Pascal

I have to check the pipes.

Perhaps we can approach them. Talk to them.

Mary

We can make them an offering of food and clothing. Our good will.

That is a fine idea...good. We'll make them a package. Anything we can spare. We'll offer to help.

Mary

Kindness has always been our first impulse.

In this case, our kindness couldn't have been more misguided.

William

This is cowardice!

Vincent

There is no shame in making sacrifices for something you believe in strongly, William.

William

I believe in the children. I believe in the life we have built here.

Mary

So do we.

William

And yet you'd see it destroyed? Changed without a fight?

Vincent

No one will ever destroy this place.