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The Story Sisters

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.

“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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“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

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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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“When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”

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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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