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Boy, Molly starts out as a real bitch!

Not Vasily being stymied in his Big Reveal because he’s supposed to be dead LOL

I now wished, most unbecomingly, to eat this man alive on my own account.

EAT HIS HEART IN THE MARKETPLACE GURL

“Vasily,” I said in a voice that quivered, “do you mean to tell me that you ironed the sheets?” “Well—it wasn’t as though there was much else to do, once I’d finished the other tasks and sent the boy out for dinner. Schmidt showed me how to use the contraption.”

God bless

Wow Nijam that was CRUSHING, I am gasping at the peony in the gutter

I knew instinctively what the matter was. The house and I alike were strangers here: the island wanted us gone.

I am a Grand Duke! I was not meant for such things!’ “You’re plain Mr Basil Nicks now,” I said, and Mimi added, “You might try doing the laundry.”

[imagine the heavy-breathing cat gif here because that is ME ON THE INSIDE RN]

I love me a powerful man pathetically in love

Life has been chaotic and unkind lately BUT I have found my kindle once again and can finally get my hands on my MOST AWAITED BOOK THIS YEAR!

If I have to spend half of Easter doing my final readthrough I'm going to log it for my Goodreads challenge lol

Love the set up for the romance arc in this one! “The morning’s events had quite broken up my self-command, and I was torn between desperate gratitude that Vasily had lived and found his way back to us, and the overpowering temptation to wring his neck. Marry him? How could I? I did not even think I could stand to take a train journey with him!”

"You needn’t be a lion, and I needn’t be a gazelle.”

one of my fave serious lines so far