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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.”

😭