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The Story Sisters

The Story Sisters
Alice Hoffman

The Story Sisters is a 2009 novel by Alice Hoffman. It is about three sisters who inhabit a fantasy world and a real world on Long Island and in Manhattan. It has been described as magic realism.

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“I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.”

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“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

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“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”

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“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

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“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

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