Tigers bride Quotes Flashcards
“My father…
…lost me to The Beast at cards”
“Always the…
pretty one, with my glossy, nut-brown curls, my rosy cheeks”
- male gaze
“Ripped…
petal by petal, apart”
“He had the…
…anguish of a man in the last stages of debauchery”
- excessive sex, alcohol indulgence
“You are so..
…careless of your treasures, you should expect them to be taken from you”
“I prick…
…my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood”
- sexual connotation
“The Beast bought…
…solitude, not luxury, with his money”
“A veritable cell…
…windowless, airless, lightless, in the viscera of the palace”
“A soubrette from…
…an operetta, with glossy, nut-brown curls, rosy cheeks, blue, rolling eyes”
“This clockwork…
…twin of mine”
“A pair of…
…diamond earrings of the finest water in the world”
- objectification
“I was a young girl…
…, and therefore men denied me rationality”
- questions her place in patriarchal society
“The lamb…
… must learn to run with the tigers”
“I did not see…
…my own face in it but that of my father”
“Each stroke of…
… his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin”
