Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Masques (1987)

Caitlin O'Heaney: Briget O'Donnell

Quotes 

• Bridget : The night has a special magic to it, don't you think? This night, especially.

  Vincent : Halloween.

  Bridget : In the Old Religion they call it Samhain. It's a night when the walls between the worlds grow thin, and spirits of the Underworld walk the earth. A night of masks and balefires, when anything is possible and nothing is quite as it seems. Your city has its own magic as well.

• Bridget : I'm beholden to you, Vincent. You cannot know what this means to me. Or perhaps you can, at that. Will you telling me of her, then?

  Vincent : Of who?

  Bridget : Your lady. The one who's breaking your heart. Ah, you didn't come to me just to say you liked me books. Something about Ian and me struck close to home.

  Vincent : She brings me... such joy... and such pain... as I have never known. I have no place in her world, she has none in mine. Our bond endangers everything. People I love, secrets I am sworn to keep, beliefs I've lived by.

  Bridget : Aye, that sounds like Ian and me, sure enough. They don't understand, do they? Father raged.

  Vincent : Yet you went on, despite everything.

  Bridget : Oh, yes, we went on until he died for it. Are you asking me for counsel, then? Forget you ever knew her and you'll both be happier.

  Vincent : You wrote that the price of your love had been high, but that you would pay it willingly, until the end of your days. That you would change nothing, regret nothing.

  Bridget : That's damned unfair of you, you know, quoting me own words back at me again after I gave you all that good advice. The brain tells you all the sensible things to do, but the heart knows nothing about sense, and the heart is as stubborn as the Irish.

• Vincent : Bridgit O'Donnell.

  Bridget : Herself.

  Vincent : I... didn't mean to interrupt your dancing.

  Bridget : An act of mercy. Thomas is a good friend and a brave man, but a dancer he's not. Extraordinary. You look as though you might have ridden with Cuchulainn, or sailed with Theseus.

  Vincent : Only in my dreams. And sometimes in books like yours. Your writing has helped me through dark times. You've touched me, made me think. I just wanted... to tell you. To thank you.

  Bridget : Come. Thank me outside.