Status Updates From The River Has Roots

quote part 2: “Esther looked at her sister—her beautiful, brilliant sister, talented and generous and funny and kind—and felt her fingers curling into fists at the thought that all the summer sunshine of her could dim for want of being seen by the likes of Samuel Pollard”
God this makes me want to cry in the best way. Devastating.

Quote part 1: “There are a great many songs written about sisters, and a great many stories, too, and most often they turn on jealousy, on pettiness, on spite. Just as often as there are cruel stepmothers in ballads there are older sisters jealous of the younger, coveting their looks, their lands, their lovers.“

Dioooos, es que el hecho de que el sistema de magia sea la gramática y la manera de emplearla sea la conjugación es una frikada, pero estoy enamorada