The Tiger's Bride Quotes

‘‘deathly sensual lethargy’’

‘‘deals with the Devil’s picture books’’

‘‘peculiar to women whom circumstances force to mutely witness folly’’

‘‘too perfect, uncanny’’

‘‘a mask with a man’s face painted most beautifully on’’

‘‘clumsy doll’’

beauty describing the beast

‘‘staked his daughter on a hand of cards’’

‘‘you must not think my father valued me at less than a king’s ransom’’

‘‘careless of you treasures, you should expect them to be taken’’

‘‘tear-beslobbered father wants a rose to show that I forgive him’’

‘‘his rose all smeared with blood’’

‘‘if this young lady was not a good girl’’ ‘‘yes my beauty! gobble you up!’’

‘‘burned-out planet’’

the beast’s home

‘‘his eyrie high above the house’’

bird of prey’s nest

‘‘the pretty young lady unclothed….returned to her father undamaged’’

‘‘ashamed of his own request’’

‘‘my eyes were level with those inside the mask that now evaded mine’’

‘‘raucous guffaw; no young lady laughs like that…but i did. and do’’

‘‘you can visit me once sir and only the once’’

‘‘struck the Beast to the heart’’

‘‘a tear, I hoped, of shame’’

‘‘I wished I’d rolled in the hay with every lad…to disqualify myself from this humiliating bargain’’

‘‘I was a young girl, a virgin…men denied me rationality…[and] all those who were not exactly like themselves in all their unreason’’

‘‘allotted only the same kind of imitative life amongst men that the doll-maker had given [‘the clockwork girl’]?’’

‘‘the sight of my master naked’’

‘‘the lamb must learn to run with the tigers’’

‘‘felt my breast ripped apart as if I suffered a marvellous wound’’

‘‘felt I was at liberty for the first time in my life’’

‘‘pride it was, not shame that thwarted my fingers so’’

‘‘flinching stark, except for his irreproachable tears’’

‘‘he was far more frightened of me than I was of him’’

‘‘he will gobble you up’’

momentary fear as she sees him whilst she is naked

‘‘his appetite need not be my extinction’’

‘‘his tongue ripped off…all the skins of a life in the world’’