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Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book QUOTES

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book QUOTES

1 " We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

2 " An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

3 " Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

4 " Death wounds only is you let her. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

5 " If the countess was Death, then Death was a cheat. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

6 " Belle saw now that his gruff, sometimes-frightening exterior masked a kind and loyal heart. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

7 " But what if you don't like your own story. What then? "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

8 " Oh, my. Oh, dear," he said. "Is this also love? This terrible pain?"
Belle nodded.
"Love is hard. I had no idea how hard. Is it worth the pain?"
"Yes," Belle said. "It is. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

9 " Lucanos nodded [...] 'She's the girl who sees with her heart.'
Aranae rolled all eight of her eyes. She chittered again, in a scolding tone this time. When she finished, she crossed two of her legs and gave Belle a dirty look.
Belle shrank under her disapproving glare, 'What did she say?' she asked timidly.
'She said your heart needs glasses. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

10 " Reading became my sanctuary,” Belle continued. “I found so much in those books. I found histories that inspired me. Poems that delighted me. Novels that challenged me…” Belle paused, suddenly self-conscious. She looked down at her hands, and in a wistful voice, said, “What I really found, though, was myself. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

11 " Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

12 " Life ends. But love? Love lives forever. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

13 " Love is not for cowards. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

14 " Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It’s all right to lose yourself in one "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

15 " Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

16 " Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

17 " Love - real love - sees with the heart, master. Not with the eyes "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

18 " Your always look for the worst in people," said Love reproachfully.
"And I always find it," Death said. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

19 " Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked.
"A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

20 " Difficulties are things that show people what they are. "

― Jennifer Donnelly , Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book