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

“She couldn’t put words to the look on Rin’s face. She only knew, very sharply and deeply, that she wanted to go on being the cause of it.”

“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.”