Top 50 Serena Valentino Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only one thing comforted him: he had finally learned what it was to love. And the feeling was deeper and more meaningful than anything he’d felt before. He felt like he was dying. To die, one must have first been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.”

— Serena Valentino

2. “It was strange having so much knowledge at once and having so little power to direct her own fate. But she listened, she watched, and she learned.”

— Serena Valentino

3. “She honestly didn’t know what was worse: living her life in the dream world, or living in a world where everyone lied to her.”

— Serena Valentino

4. “Hate – true hate – wasn’t just conjured; it was birthed.”

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5. “Why must a young girl need a man to save her? Why can’t a princess fight for her own life, break her own curse? Why must it always be a prince? By Hades, I want to kill Prince Phillip on principle, just so we don’t have yet one more prince kissing some helpless sleeping girl, making her feel like she has to marry him out of gratitude.”

— Serena Valentino

6. “To die, one must first have been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.”

— Serena Valentino

7. “We’re not here to discuss Maleficent! Her story is too long and complicated to debate in the time we have left...”

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8. “His eyes looked cruel, piercing, almost like those of a wolf seeking his prey, and his mouth looked thinner, more sinister than it had looked before.”

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9. “I cannot live in fear of losing him, for fear of not living my life at all.”

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10. “Magic Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”

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11. “The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.”

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12. “Sometimes we create images of the people we love and hate in our minds, and those images override what we see with our eyes, even when they are right in front of us. Even if we’ve imagined them to be monsters, to see them as they truly are with our eyes and our hearts is sometimes shocking.”

— Serena Valentino

13. “So many books to read and worlds to escape into, so much history to learn. No matter what was happening, no matter how distressing it was, all she had to do was go to the library and it would all be well in her world.”

— Serena Valentino

14. “We will be different people after tonight. Different versions of ourselves.”

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15. “How do you honor a witch who betrayed you?”

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16. “Christmastime was always my favorite time of year. It did something to me. It made me softer. More kindhearted. Not an affliction I fall prey to lately. But back then I loved the days leading up to Christmas almost as much as I loved the day itself.”

— Serena Valentino

17. “You are beautiful, my dear, truly. Do not ever forget that, even if I am not here to remind you.”

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18. “Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life?”

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19. “It’s hard to feel sorry for those willing to fling themselves into disaster. They are their own undoing, my dear. They bring it upon themselves. They don’t merit your pity.”

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20. “In the end, everything isn’t always as black-and-white as the markings on a Dalmatian puppy. Even for an evil thing like Cruella De Vil.”

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21. “Don’t forget, Beast, true love, both given and received, before the last petal falls.”

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22. “The old queen had failed them so miserably... She was such a bitter disappointment. But Ursula was different. There was no one to distract her, no one for her to love. She was alone in the world, alone in her grief, and alone with her pain. No, she wouldn’t disappoint them. Unlike the old queen, Ursula would be able to fill her heart with hate.”

— Serena Valentino

23. “Her name is Aurora, for she is my shining light in the darkness.”

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24. “Countless stories like this have been told over the years, and how do they end? Always in misery for the wicked queen or witch, always with death. And always she was wronged in some way, by something or some person who set her on this path.”

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25. “What sort of woman would do that – give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father’s? The Beast wondered if he was capable of such a sacrifice. He wondered if he was capable of love.”

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26. “But of course, isn’t it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall? And I would indeed fall, farther than I could have possibly imagined.”

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27. “I didn’t like that person inside me who said and did awful things. But sometimes it felt as if I had no control over her.”

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28. “I think it was because no one loved her.” “Why?” asked the child. “Because she didn’t love herself. She feared rejection because she was so unlike anyone she’d ever known. She was so full of fear that she sequestered herself away.”

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29. “You have to watch our for the quiet ones. Take some advice from me. The quiet observant girls are the deadliest.”

— Serena Valentino

30. “I only wish I could describe it more accurately, because it’s not the design I’m trying to describe as much as the feeling it evokes when I think of it. A sense of home how does one describe that?”

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31. “Belle, so brave and noble – willing to take her father’s place as a prisoner in the castle dungeon. What sort of woman would do that – give up her life so easily, sacrificing her freedom for her father’s?”

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32. “The only person who killed almost as many animals as the Prince was his good friend Gaston.”

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33. “Because she didn’t love herself. She feared rejection because she was so unlike anyone she’d ever known. She was so full of fear that she sequestered herself away.”

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34. “The sky, they thought, was particularly breathtaking at twilight; it was their magic hour, when everything looked perfect and they felt anything was possible.”

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35. “Tulip looks beautiful. More importantly, she looks happy! And she’s living her life as she chooses.”

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36. “It was a curious sensation, as if she had never known what it was to feel alive until that moment.”

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37. “It is our lot to lose our loves and feel our hearts break in the wake of that loss.”

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38. “But I’d course, isn’t it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall?”

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39. “You’ll soon learn most of our stories are quite the same, James. I’m sure you’ll find all of us are either running away from or running to something.”

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40. “You’re running toward your fate, a better life, and you still have it all before you. You get to choose the sort of man you want to be. It’s your choice, James, no one else’s.”

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41. “She seemed to love beautiful, delicate things, and I wondered if she had lived, would she have loved me, too, ugly as I was?”

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42. “Don’t let yourselves get caught up in someone else’s story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending.”

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43. “Maleficent had come to realize it was her fondness for Opal that allowed her to see though her eyes.”

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44. “She had power over him now, the way he’d had it over her for so many years.”

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45. “My ghosts weren’t ghosts anymore. They were people and they loved me. Anita was right. They were my family.”

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46. “It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.”

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47. “She couldn’t act like a mother if she tried!” said Martha. “This is even better than I thought it would be!” said Ruby, laughing so hard she fell to the floor and rolled around in fits. Soon Martha joined her, and the two were laughing so hard they were crying, causing their makeup to drip down their hysterical faces.”

— Serena Valentino

48. “Tulip hated this feeling. The last time she had felt this way, she had been utterly humiliated and deeply hurt. She couldn’t imagine allowing herself to be charmed by another handsome man only to be heartbroken again. But she was different now, wasn’t she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.”

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49. “Each time he returned from battle he was a little less himself – and a little bit more at the same time. The experience seemed to both harrow his soul and enrich his understanding of the evils the world held.”

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50. “But your thirst for knowledge has sparked life back into us, and for that we are grateful.”

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