Coffin Inside Quote by James Reaney

“And between them, the little shoe-box glistening with scarlet wallpaper and gilt like a fairy coffin. Inside it, there was the crabbed corpse of a still-born child wreathed in bloody newspaper. “I hated you so much,” she said softly.” quote by James Reaney — Download Open image

““And between them, the little shoe-box glistening with scarlet wallpaper and gilt like a fairy coffin. Inside it, there was the crabbed corpse of a still-born child wreathed in bloody newspaper. “I hated you so much,” she said softly.””

James Reaney

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