Twisted Tale Quotes

“They’re delightful,” Belle said, sighing. “I wish I had a dozen of them at home.” “Children?” the Beast said, eyes wide and eyebrows high. "Talking teacups.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“The teacup shivered again and Belle could have sworn she heard it giggle.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Giggling and making little tinkling noises on the floor, the teacups scurried over to the marble-topped occasional table. There was a pretty woven and quilted hot pad on it, which they carefully arranged themselves on like a pile of puppies bedding down for the night.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“And then, of course, she woke up.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Willyoucomedowntodinner?" The Beast finally muttered.
"No. Thank you." Belle replied just as formally and twice as icily.
"YOU CAN'T STAY IN THERE FOREVER!" the Beast bellowed.
"JUST WATCH ME!" Belle spat back.
"FINE! THEN GO AHEAD AND STARVE!"
"I ALREADY PLANNED TO!"

As Old As Time, a Twisted Tale”
― Liz Braswell

“FINE! THEN GO AHEAD AND STARVE!"

"I ALREADY PLANNED TO!”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I only gave my word to stay. Nothing else," Belle repeated firmly.
Nothing would stop her from satisfying her curiosity about the mist interesting thing that had ever happened to her.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I only gave my word to stay. Nothing else," Belle repeated firmly.
Nothing would stop her from satisfying her curiosity about the most interesting thing that had ever happened to her.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I need some rope," she said to Cogsworth as she entered the study, shaking herself into action.
"Yes, of course, right away," the little clock said. "What?"
"I'm not letting him free until I get some answers," Belle said, gritting her teeth. "Help me tie him up."
"Tie up? The master?" Cogsworth stuttered.
"He threw my father into a cold prison cell, then took me in his place! I think tying him up in front of a warm roaring fire is plenty generous, considering!”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Belle examined the dresses skeptically. Of course, if things went the way they did in fairy tales, they would all fit her perfectly. The question was, was this a "Bluebeard's Wives" situation? Or something else?”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Once upon a time, slightly longer ago then before, there was a kingdom whose name and very existence have long since been forgotten. While the rest of the world was fighting for control of new lands across the seas, inventing ever more deadly weapons, and generously gifting their own religion to foreign people who didn't want it, this kingdom just splendidly was.
In happier years, because of its removed location in an out-of-the-way valley, it was a lodestone for the artistic, the different, the clever: les charmantes.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“She has these new images in her head of a women maybe ten years older than Belle herself was now. She wondered at the cross of sublime, angelic determination and spitfire anger that has caused her to test and then curse a boy prince.

Rash-- that was the word Belle would have chosen to use for a women who did things like that.

Oh, a tiny voice in her mind said, you mean things like marching into a haunted castle and trading your life for your fathers'. Acting without thinking about consequences.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time