Elizabeth Rudnick > Quotes

“I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I’ve lost you forever.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“You're his lobster. Or swan, Or penguin. The Spock to his Kirk”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“What was wrong with her? Why did things like this keep happening to her? Love wasn't supposed to hurt, yet it felt like all she knew when it came to love was pain. Every time she opened her heart, she just got burned. Or, in this case, frozen. And she was getting sick and tired of it.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

“Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“People say a lot of things in anger," she said. "It is our choice whether or not to listen.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Against the odds, the Beast had shown her true beauty. He had shown her it was okay to feel lost and made her realize how desperately she had wanted to be found. She had learned that things were not always what they seemed, that people could surprise you. He had given her the one thing she had always longed for - something more.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Don't those girls know that beneath this goofy exterior is someone honost and generally awesome in every way? I'm a winner dammit”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn't want to see her get hurt. Love wasn't the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now - sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

“softly, her voice cracking with emotion. “I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I’ve lost you forever.” She paused, wiping a tear. “But I swear, no harm will come to you as long as I live…and not a day shall pass that I won’t miss your smile.…”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“Love is special, and anyone who gives you their heart is giving you a part of them.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

“Hope flared in the Beast's eyes. "Really?" he asked. "You think you could be happy here?"
"Can anybody be happy if they aren't free?" Belle asked softly.
The Beast blinked guiltily, knowing she was right.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Ice cream is just a Band-Aid. Pain is still there when you wake up.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“It was a lonely place. A place for the dark-hearted. It's where I deserve to be, Maleficent told herself every time she arrived. For only someone with a heart as dark as mine could do something so evil to a girl with a heart as light as Aurora's.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“Love doesn't always make sense...or happen the way you expect.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“I want to talk WITH someone, not be talked at BY someone.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“No more creepy online alter egos in the name of love.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“Friends are the glue that keep us all here. Without them, who would drive you to school or skip class with you when you need to pick up a new pair of sneaks because you stepped in dog crap on the way onto campus? Boy or girl, underclassman or upperclassman, we all need our friends--just like the cheesy songs tell us.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“Think of the place you’ve most wanted to see. First see it in your mind’s eye. Now feel it in your heart.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Someday, she thought as she slumped against the door, someday i'll find someone who will understand me, someone who will let me be me. Someday i'll show them all. I want so much more than the people in this town could ever understand.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“Love... It only serves to make one weak...”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

“From the other side of the hill, two enormous black wings appeared through the mist. Then a pair of sharp, twisted horns. Slowly, Maleficent rose into the air, looking like a creature from hell. Behind her, there was only mist. No army of her own. No faeries or creatures. Just Maleficent.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent

“This is a tale of a beauty much deeper than that. It is the story of two people drawn together under the most interesting of circumstances, two people who learn to truly see what matters only after they meet each other and their tale—one both as old as time and as fresh as a rose—begins.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick

“Back in Paris," he said, "I knew a girl who was so different, so daring, so ahead of her time that people mocked her until the day they found themselves imitating her. Do you know what she used to say?"
Belle shook her head.
She used to say, 'The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.'" Maurice paused for a moment, letting the worlds sink in. Then he added. "Behind your back. Never to catch up.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't that family?”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Disney Frozen: A Frozen Heart

“Sometimes honestly really is the best policy.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Tweet Heart

“Blue eyes met brown, and them, as dawn broke the horizon, they leaned forward and kissed. It was a kiss Belle would never forget - One better than any in all the book she had read. It was a kiss full of apology, full of thankfulness, and full of deep, deep love. It was a kiss full of enchantment. And ad their lips met, that magic exploded from them to the rest of the castle.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

“together. But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Maleficent