tiger's bride

• My father lost me to The Beast at cards - tiger's bride


  heroine is seen as a commodity that can be bought, sold and leveraged for her owner’s benefit
• his hands shake as he deals the Devil's picture books - tiger's bride
• he has an odd air of self-imposed restraint, as if fighting a battle with himself to remain upright when he would far rather drop down on all fours - tiger's bride
• although he wears a mask with a man's face painted most beautifully on it. Oh, yes, a beautiful face; but one with too much formal symmetry of feature to be entirely human - tiger's bride
• he has such a growling impediment in his speech that only his valet, who understands him, can interpret for him, as if his master were the clumsy doll and he the ventriloquist - tiger's bride


  emphasises on the savage aspect that he has. It seems that he won’t change his manners. He cannot help it. His growling voice is part of who he is and it is hard to understand so he has someone to speak for him
• Gambling is a sickness. My father said he loved me yet he staked his daughter on a hand of cards - tiger's bride
• My father, of course, believed in miracles; what gambler does not? - tiger's bride


  heroine tries to give pity to her father for having a gambling addiction, but does not change the fact that he loses her to the beast due to it.
•  My tear-beslobbered father wants a rose to show that I forgive him. When I break off a stem, I prick my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood. - tiger's bride


  Her father wants a rose which shows forgiveness an she gives it to him and she gives him one with her blood showing that she does not forgive him too entirely. White is known for letting go and she taints the white rose with her blood
• 'My master's sole desire is to see the pretty young lady unclothed nude without her dress and that only for the one time after which she will be returned to her father undamaged - tiger's bride
• he was ashamed of his own request even as his mouthpiece made it for him - tiger's bride
• I let out a raucous guffaw; no young lady laughs like that! - tiger's bride
• 'You may put me in a windowless room, sir, and I promise you I will pull my skirt up to my waist, ready for you. But there must be a sheet over my face, to hide it; - tiger's bride
• I shall be covered completely from the waist upwards, and no lights. There you can visit me once, sir, and only the once - tiger's bride
• How pleased I was to see I struck The Beast to the heart! For, after a baker's dozen heartbeats, one single tear swelled, glittering, at the corner of the masked eye - tiger's bride
• A tear! A tear, I hoped, of shame. The tear trembled for a moment on an edge of painted bone, then tumbled down the painted cheek to fall, with an abrupt tinkle, on the tiled floor - tiger's bride
• Take off my clothes for you, like a ballet girl? Is that all you want of me? - tiger's bride
• The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. - tiger's bride
• the tip of his heavy tail twitching as he paced out the length and breadth of his imprisonment between the gnawed and bloody bones.He will gobble you up. - tiger's bride
• He went still as stone. He was far more frightened of me than I was of him - tiger's bride
•  I never moved. He snuffed the air, as if to smell my fear; he could not. Slowly, slowly he began to drag his heavy, gleaming weight across the floor towards me - tiger's bride
• I felt the harsh velvet of his head against my hand, then a tongue, abrasive as sandpaper. 'He will lick the skin off me!' - tiger's bride
• And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs - tiger's bride
• My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur - tiger's bride