{"quotes":[{"text":"As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.","author":"Robin McKinley","tags":["beast","beauty","beauty-and-the-beast","love","reasoning","trust"],"id":1192,"author_id":"Robin+McKinley"},{"text":"Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white bass-relief of Clio. But now, tendrils of dark green ivy grew between the shelves, reaching toward the books as if they were hungry to read. White mist flowed along the floor, rippling and tumbling as if blown by wind. Across the ceiling wove a network of icy ropes like tree roots. They dripped- not little droplets like the ice melting off a tree but grape-sized drops of water, like giant tears, that splashed on the table, plopped to the floor.","author":"Rosamund Hodge","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","greek-mythology","retellings","ya"],"id":13813,"author_id":"Rosamund+Hodge"},{"text":"Sometimes,' Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, 'everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while'. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. 'I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.","author":"Sarah Pinborough","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","darkness","fairy-tales","sleeping-beauty"],"id":27878,"author_id":"Sarah+Pinborough"},{"text":"None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.","author":"Meagan Spooner","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","castle","fantasy","magic","ya","yeva"],"id":50383,"author_id":"Meagan+Spooner"},{"text":"I've spent my life wondering when I would earn the right to be a man again. Despite the undeserved good fortune of finding my true love, I always held a kernel of bitterness in my heart that things were not different... I will never be the man that I was. That man is dead—slain—for better or for worse, by my life as the Beast. In your words, the world does not need who I was.","author":"Jack Heckel","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","fairy-tales","fantasy","folklore"],"id":54580,"author_id":"Jack+Heckel"},{"text":"My mother used to tell me, every time we were watching Cinderella, that Cinderella had the best attitude and that I should strive to be just like her. Later when I grew up, I resented my mother for teaching me that way, as I saw it as the reason why I often felt preyed on by people who were much more like the ugly stepsisters. But now, all of a sudden, I’ve realized that what my mom meant was that no matter how ugly people can be to you, no matter how rough they treat you, no matter how much their actions tempt you to become your worst— you should overcome them by never letting them steal your gentleness. People only win when they are able to take away your gentleness, your sweetness. But if you remember that you’re a princess, and they’re just not, at the end of the day you win! Still, my mom should have pointed me in the direction of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Cinderella is fine, but had she taught me that Belle was the best way to be, I would have probably never grown to resent that. Belle always retained her gentleness but she could still beat up a pack of wolves at the same time and that’s the kind of princess I wanted to be like! Not to mention she loved books!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","being-a-real-princess","disney-princess","inspirational-princess","inspirational","inspirational-words","just-like-cinderella","learning-from-disney","learning-from-my-mother","learning-through-life","the-real-story-of-cinderella","wisdom"],"id":136650,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Some curses fade and leave nothing but the faintest mark, a tea stain on watered silk. There are those that are so malevolent that, upon defeat, explode in a fiery burst of sulfurous flames, burning everything they touch as they die. Others dissolve like morning mist in the brightness of the midday sun. Some cannot be defeated at all, but feed upon the energy spent trying to vanquish it, growing more and more potent with each failed attempt. And then there are those ancient curses with deceptively simple antidotes that shatter like jagged shards of a vast mirror. These curses may be broken, but never completely destroyed, sharp slivers of light distorted.","author":"Ava Zavora","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","fantasy"],"id":144655,"author_id":"Ava+Zavora"},{"text":"If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.","author":"Rachel L. Demeter","tags":["beauty-and-the-beast","cruelty","dark-romance","france","french","mademoiselle","man-made","mans-cruelty","monster","monstrous","retelling","trauma"],"id":163200,"author_id":"Rachel+L.+Demeter"},{"text":"If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.","author":"Aya Ling","tags":["aya-ling","beauty-and-the-beast","belle","disney","library","library-love","marriage","marriage-proposal-tips"],"id":167531,"author_id":"Aya+Ling"},{"text":"He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.","author":"Elizabeth D. Marie","tags":["battles","beauty-and-the-beast","monsters","struggle"],"id":170292,"author_id":"Elizabeth+D.+Marie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}