“It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. Your mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)”

— Jonathan Stroud , book The Ring of Solomon

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