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“Individuality might grate on someone’s nerves, so they had sanded away all my edges until I was beautiful and bland and utterly boring.”

Individuality

Book:Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

Source: Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“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?”

Individuality

Book:Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

Source: Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“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.”

Care Relationships Friendship

Book:The Color Plague

Source: The Color Plague

“My lonely beast was just the same as his lonely beauty: two of a kind.”

Loneliness

Book:Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

Source: Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I liked her laugh. It wasn't that magical, twinkling laugh that poets would have you hoping for, but it was real. It came from her gut, and it made every trace of worry and discomfort that had been plastered on her face up until now disappear.”

Laughter

Book:Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

Source: Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“Then she did that wonderful thing that good friends sometimes do when they look at you like you're hot shit and you should know it.”

Friendship Confidence

Book:Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

Source: Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“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.”

Support Companionship Bargain

Book:Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

Source: Beauty and Beast: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“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.”

Selfishness Vulnerability Unhealthy Relationships

Book:Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

Source: Vampires Don't Need an Invitation

“It seemed especially cruel to hate someone for loving, but she knew that people could be especially cruel.”

Love Hate Cruelty

Book:The Color Thief

Source: The Color Thief

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