67 Quotes by Meagan Spooner

BEAST She calls you Beast, for that is what you are. And Beauty. The surprise is not the compliment, not the truth, that she is beautiful. The surprise is not that we wish to help her. The surprise is not even the electric warmth that rises at the sound of her voice, even when she is shouting. The surprise is how much I long to hear her call me, just once more, Ivan.

We always know before the change comes. When a storm approaches, we feel it in the thickness of the air, the tension in the earth awaiting the blanket of snow. We feel the moment the wind changes direction. We sense a shift of power when it is coming. Tonight.

Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.

We curse everything, for we are cursed, and we have no arms to shelter her and no lips to press to her hair and above all no words to tell her that we know loss and we know pain and if they were monsters we could fight we would have slain them in her name long ago like the heroes of old. But we are not a hero. We are cursed.

That I am a prisoner too. And have been far longer than you.

I am not asking you to love me,” he said, his voice ringing in the quiet winter air. “Only that you let me love you. As I do.

I will call you Beauty, for that is what you are.

We always know before the change comes – but we never know what the change will bring.

I was always lonely, and I never knew it until I met the Beast.