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“It was not yet like Moscow, where people snatched bunny at his words and loved him with their frightened eyes. Not yet.

But it would be.”

This priest is giving me chills

“Why couldn’t some man of the village help him find his pigments? Why the green-eyed witch?”

LOL

“Even the maidens of fairy tales do not always end happily. Alenushka was turned into a duck and watched the wicked witch butcher her duck-children”

Am I going to hell for laughing out loud lol

“In winter, scarce a week went by when her half sisters did not visit the bathhouses, but there was a little potbellied devil in there that grinned at them through the steam. Anna tried to point him out, but her sisters saw nothing.”

Okay the fantasy has begun and now I’m happy girl

“A demon sat sewing in the corner, and she was the only one who saw.”

“All that winter his infant daughter had screamed, and he could not bear to look the baby in the face, because her mother had chosen the child and not him.”

OH MY GOD 😭

“Marina,” said Pyotr, low,, “thank you for my sons.”

😭

“Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.”

“But still, it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers.”

“Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God‘s name do they want from me?”

Already feel like this will be five stars

What the frick is a canton

I almost…. Don’t want it to end 🥲

“Hit it like you hate it”

😭😭😭😭 CLAY!!!

And just when Clay thought he couldn’t be any more freaked out, a skeleton in a soiled white wedding dress came shambling through the knee deep muck. It clutched a wreath of dead flowers to its bony breast, and its empty sockets gazed mournfully at Clay it waded past.

I love this book so much!!!

“The warrior was eventually captured, confined to an inescapable prison known as the Quarry—inescapable because its inhabitants were turned to stone. Clay had heard it said the Quarry was tended by Keepers, who were blinded at birth and raised to know every inch of the prison by touch alone, and guarded by basilisks, the gazes of which could turn exposed flesh to stone.”

Well damn 😂

“Judge them for what they wished to be,” he begged the Father of Gods, “not what the world made of them.”

“It also didn’t help that scrubbing one’s scalp with a druin’s blood was said to cure baldness—this dubious fact alone made them fair game for bounty hunters the world over.” Lol

Okay I think this book is gonna throw me into the opposite of a reading slump. It’s reviving my love for fantasy

“Nothing I couldn’t handle. A couple of ogres, a barghest, a pack of werewolves that turned out to be, like, seventy years old in human form, so… They went down pretty easy.”

In the shadows, she can’t see his expression, only the glint of his eyes.

“Sometimes I wish I was dead,” he says.

She is struck by the hopelessness in his voice. “Don’t say that,” she whispers.

OH 😭😭😭😭

“I want you to stay. I want you to tell me if you truly love Onnes. I want you to touch me. I want you to tell me your secrets. I want you. I want you”

AHHHHHHHHHBSKANDJKW

I was NOT expecting this development and I’m SO FREAKING HERE FOR IT

Kind of dragging which is a bummer