Cannot a Beast be tamed?

“--including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who …”

“I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were …”

“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on b…”

“Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stu…”