"i wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain from off the shaken bush. why will it not?"
“Yes, yes,” said the Beast, “my heart is good, but still I am a monster.” “Among mankind,” says Beauty, “there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.”
Beauty and the Beast, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
