“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”
“She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.”
“She can be fierce, but for all of that she's actually kindness itself.”
“She did not feel anything so boring as beautiful. She felt fierce.”
“Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant. ”