Winter Palace Quotes

“The fact that she went to church daily made Ivona Aristonova, in her own eyes, a very religious person. Her neighbors, too, considered her devout because she followed the visible pattern. There was little room in her tightly controlled world for the inner life of faith, but she valued the ritual of the church. Church ritual was understandable. It was definable. It was a visible path to follow. The knowledge that she was walking on the sure path toward eternal rest made the misery of her past bearable.”
― T. Davis Bunn, Winter Palace