COML - Key quotes Flashcards
“How strange..
he was”
“she found his bewildering..
difference from herself almost intolerable: its presence choked her”
“when she saw the..
great paws lying on the arm of his chair , she thought: they are the death of any tender herbivore”
“she felt herself to be Miss Lamb..
spotless, sacrificial”
“the beast…
sunk his head on his great paws”
“it was in her heart to..
drop a kiss upon his shaggy mane but though she stretched her hand out towards him, she could not bring herself to touch him of her own free will”
“when her lips touched the meat..
hooked claws, they drew back into their pads”
“her tears fell on his face like..
snow and under their soft transformation, the bones showed through the pelt”
“it was no longer..
a lion in her arms but a man”