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“Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.”

men ruin everything!

“Their voice made Esther think of weather, of winter, of woodsmoke: something cold but bright, burning and fragrant, curling into the air before vanishing. They were utterly strange and utterly beautiful, in a way that Esther yearned towards because she didn't understand it, the way she yearned towards horizons and untrodden secret paths in unfamiliar woods.”

“Taste is a kind of language, and siblings speak it with a forked tongue.”

“Just as beekeepers tell their hives all the news in thanks for honey, the Hawthorns sang to their trees in thanks for their translations.”