Emily Poirier > Quotes

“I am trying to apologize to you, Beauty, but I am utterly out of practice. You will find that beasts rarely apologize, if they do at all.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“What do I do now?"
Pity still filling her eyes, she shrugged and offered an apologetic smile. "You go home. Take care of that," she said, motioning to my arm, which was still bleeding a little and covered in dirt. "And I guess you try to forget that monsters are real.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“It was a relationship between a young, inexperienced girl and an older man used to getting what he wanted. He'd come to her when she was vulnerable and convinced her that he was the only one who cared about her, and she'd believed him. And he did care about her, but he cared about himself a whole lot more.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Maybe he did want this. Maybe the requisite pageantry had played a part in his reluctance. It was playing a part in mine.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“She's a big ol' nerd, I thought, leaning back with a soft chuckle. She'd become a vampire and spent her afterlife researching.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“If they have sex on my couch, I swear to god, I thought with gritted teeth.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“I like my niche genres and selective listening. Is that a crime?”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“I might have pitied him. He really believed that he had done us both a favor, that he had gone out of his way to give us each a gift. I might have pitied him if his assumption hadn't ruined Grayson's life, if he'd merely offered instead of going ahead and doing it without consulting either of us. I did not pity him.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“I had not the time to consider the nature of a monster who valued a rose garden above all things as Father said, "I'm so sorry.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Beast was silent, and only after that silence stretched did I realize how vulnerable those words had been, and how bitter. I was thinking of something to mitigate both when Beast said, “You were well rid of them, if all they saw was your face and your past.” I stared at the monstrous curves and angles of his inhuman face, and I saw the human expression — vulnerable and bitter as mine had been — behind it.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“They feared something that came as easily to her as breathing, and they feared her because she was not afraid of it.”
― Emily Poirier, The Color Plague

“The words had a sharper sound than she meant to give them, sharpened by habit rather than intent, and she watched the smile on his lips falter.”
― Emily Poirier, The Color Plague

“When I thought about it, I realized how silly and artificial the things I knew about each of them were, but that was how it happened when nobody knew anybody and you tried listing off your interests and background in the hopes of finding people who would mesh with your interests and background.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Was that approval? Or was that magic twisting his mouth before forbidden words were allowed to tumble out?”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“You owe me nothing, Beauty,” he assured me. “Your only onus is to remain; companionship and support were never part of the bargain.”
I laughed, which Beast didn’t seem to like. “No, but companionship and support aren’t usually effective bargaining tools anyway. Too fickle. Too difficult to enforce.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I didn’t want to give anyone the satisfaction of thinking they’d broken me.
They had, but they didn’t deserve to be proud of it.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“We need to be like your family and judge whether she's a good fit for you while ignoring your own feelings about her.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Oen wasn't asking anything of her other than to listen and be interested, and in return Iria was able to pretend like she was any other person talking with a friend.”
― Emily Poirier, The Color Plague

“Maybe if I’d learned my lessons with a more dedicated heart, I would be better behaved now, but could anyone truly be erased by zealous teachers and societal pressures?”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“Quintus sat back down in the bean bag chair, lounged as if someone was about to come over with grapes and a fan, and said, "It's true.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Hey," I replied, making finger guns at her because I was anxious about meeting her friends and couldn't think of anything else less stupid to do. Like just saying hi. Or waving.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Individuality might grate on someone’s nerves, so they had sanded away all my edges until I was beautiful and bland and utterly boring.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“You do not owe him your unhappiness.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“The great shadow before me may have had an animal body, but he had the mind of a man at least, and men could be reasoned with, pleased, manipulated.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“That guy came out of nowhere and then he just knocked into me and oh my god was he going to bite me? Like that guy from a few years ago who was on bath salts that bit someone and that everyone thought was a zombie but this guy knew what he was doing and he had fangs and he seemed like a vampire not a zombie even though that's fucking crazy because vampires and zombies aren't real! But, but..." But if they're not real, why am I so afraid right now? My brain finished the thought that I could not bear to say aloud, the thought that might mean that deep down I believed in what had just happened.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Grayson raised an eyebrow and placed a hand gently on my knee. "I could think of a thing or two." I don't think my reaction was as eager and excited as he was hoping for, because he quickly amended, "Like cards or something.”
― Emily Poirier, Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“His goodness was worth saving, and his badness had taught me to accept my own.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“It was an imperfect plan, but this whole journey was a collection of imperfect plans, so she nodded and got into the bedroll.”
― Emily Poirier, The Color Thief

“Out of habit and exhaustion, Iria’s
surprise did not show on her face. He had been worried about her. She didn’t even need the barest scraps of her
returning magic to know it. He’d been worried about her, and that was new, and it tugged at her. “Okay,” was her whole response, and she wondered if she would have cried had she had the energy for it.”
― Emily Poirier, The Color Plague

“Beast, you’re despicable, and I like you very much,” I amended.”
― Emily Poirier, Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling