Quotes from Serena Valentino

It is our lot to lose our loves and feel our hearts break in the wake of that loss.

I didn't like that person inside me who said and did awful things. But sometimes it felt as if I had no control over her.

She had power over him now, the way he'd had it over her for so many years.

Because she didn't love herself. She feared rejection because she was so unlike anyone she'd ever known. She was so full of fear that she sequestered herself away.

were holding a mirror up to the monster within, which was longing to escape

The world is dark, selfish, and cruel. If it finds the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it,

Tulip looks beautiful. More importantly, she looks happy! And she's living her life as she chooses.

You are beautiful, my dear, truly. Do not ever forget that, even if I am not here to remind you.

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending

Tulip hated this feeling. The last time she had felt this way, she had been utterly humiliated and deeply hurt. She couldn't imagine allowing herself to be charmed by another handsome man only to be heartbroken again. But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.

Belle, so brave and noble—willing to take her father's place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that—give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father's?

She realised she had lost something of herself over the past six years. She had lost her edge, her wit and her stoicism. She had become softer and she resolved to find herself again

The sky, they thought, was particularly breathtaking at twilight; it was their magic hour, when everything looked perfect and they felt anything was possible.

No wonder men didn't take women seriously; they had classes in walking while men learned ancient languages.

It was a curious sensation, as if she had never known what it was to feel alive until that moment.

Why must a young girl need a man to save her? Why can't a princess fight for her own life, break her own curse? Why must it always be a prince? By Hades, I want to kill Prince Phillip on principle, just so we don't have yet one more prince kissing some helpless sleeping girl, making her feel like she has to marry him out of gratitude.

But your thirst for knowledge has sparked life back into us, and for that we are grateful.

Her name is Aurora, for she is my shining light in the darkness.

But of course, isn't it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall? And I would indeed fall, farther than I could have possibly imagined.

The only person who killed almost as many animals as the Prince was his good friend Gaston

Maleficent had come to realize it was her fondness for Opal that allowed her to see though her eyes.

It's hard to feel sorry for those willing to fling themselves into disaster. They are their own undoing, my dear. They bring it upon themselves. They don't merit your pity.

Now go. Don't look back. I couldn't bear to see you looking back at me while you go,

She couldn't act like a mother if she tried!" said Martha. "This is even better than I thought it would be!" said Ruby, laughing so hard she fell to the floor and rolled around in fits. Soon Martha joined her, and the two were laughing so hard they were crying, causing their makeup to drip down their hysterical faces.