This is the title of the book Belle was reading in “Skin Deep” when she met Rumple for the first time.
Wow, if this is true, maybe the writers are in fact going back to season 1 to bring back old themes and memories. This has to be Belle/Rumple centric. Unless it’s Emma centric, and referring to Captain Hook or even Neal (jk jk hehe).
It’s is true. It’s in the Skin Deep transcript and confirmed by all the writers over various years. And we know it’s Belle/Rumple centric…we’re seeing Belle pre-Rumple in a flashback, and Gaston was (re)cast.
Edited to add: full Skin Transcript from the auction a few years ago. The book title is on page 5.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2oOLJnKFdLnNGhPMklxa0VFU3M/edit
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"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"