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1 " You owe me nothing, Beauty,” he assured me. “Your only onus is to remain; companionship and support were never part of the bargain.”I laughed, which Beast didn’t seem to like. “No, but companionship and support aren’t usually effective bargaining tools anyway. Too fickle. Too difficult to enforce. "
― Emily Poirier , Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling
2 " It was a relationship between a young, inexperienced girl and an older man used to getting what he wanted. He'd come to her when she was vulnerable and convinced her that he was the only one who cared about her, and she'd believed him. And he did care about her, but he cared about himself a whole lot more. "
― Emily Poirier , Vampires Don't Need an Invitation
3 " I had not the time to consider the nature of a monster who valued a rose garden above all things as Father said, "I'm so sorry. "
4 " The great shadow before me may have had an animal body, but he had the mind of a man at least, and men could be reasoned with, pleased, manipulated. "
5 " I am trying to apologize to you, Beauty, but I am utterly out of practice. You will find that beasts rarely apologize, if they do at all. "
6 " What do I do now?"Pity still filling her eyes, she shrugged and offered an apologetic smile. "You go home. Take care of that," she said, motioning to my arm, which was still bleeding a little and covered in dirt. "And I guess you try to forget that monsters are real. "
7 " When I thought about it, I realized how silly and artificial the things I knew about each of them were, but that was how it happened when nobody knew anybody and you tried listing off your interests and background in the hopes of finding people who would mesh with your interests and background. "
8 " My lonely beast was just the same as his lonely beauty: two of a kind. "
9 " I could imagine the look on his face: younger and not yet hardened by the passage of time and loneliness. My Beast, reaching out for a lifeline. "
10 " That guy came out of nowhere and then he just knocked into me and oh my god was he going to bite me? Like that guy from a few years ago who was on bath salts that bit someone and that everyone thought was a zombie but this guy knew what he was doing and he had fangs and he seemed like a vampire not a zombie even though that's fucking crazy because vampires and zombies aren't real! But, but..." But if they're not real, why am I so afraid right now? My brain finished the thought that I could not bear to say aloud, the thought that might mean that deep down I believed in what had just happened. "
11 " Who knew someone with such a sharp personality could be so soft?” I said, and I felt my lips slow as sleep clawed at them.“Who knew someone with such a soft personality could be so sharp?” he retorted, though his speech too had quieted. “You’re all elbows. "
12 " Beast, you’re despicable, and I like you very much,” I amended. "
13 " I didn’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of thinking they’d broken me.They had, but they didn’t deserve to be proud of it. "
14 " His goodness was worth saving, and his badness had taught me to accept my own. "
15 " I liked her laugh. It wasn't that magical, twinkling laugh that poets would have you hoping for, but it was real. It came from her gut, and it made every trace of worry and discomfort that had been plastered on her face up until now disappear. "
16 " My disappointment must have shown on my face because she continued with a chuckle, "I'm sorry this is such a letdown for you. I don't even keep bodies or blood in my fridge.""Are you even actually a vampire?" I asked in exasperation, shutting the fridge and turning to her. Up until that moment, I had been sure, but nothing was lining up with how things were supposed to go. "
17 " Beast was silent, and only after that silence stretched did I realize how vulnerable those words had been, and how bitter. I was thinking of something to mitigate both when Beast said, “You were well rid of them, if all they saw was your face and your past.” I stared at the monstrous curves and angles of his inhuman face, and I saw the human expression — vulnerable and bitter as mine had been — behind it. "
18 " She's a big ol' nerd, I thought, leaning back with a soft chuckle. She'd become a vampire and spent her afterlife researching. "
19 " If they have sex on my couch, I swear to god, I thought with gritted teeth. "
20 " Grayson raised an eyebrow and placed a hand gently on my knee. "I could think of a thing or two." I don't think my reaction was as eager and excited as he was hoping for, because he quickly amended, "Like cards or something. "
