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Pancha García
Three sisters, who are also students of spiritualism and the supernatural. The Mora sisters are drawn to Clara and the big house on the corner, and they simply show up one day and move in. The Mora sisters have a photograph of a “misty, winged ectoplasm,” which Clara considers definitive proof of spirits in the physical form. Clara and the Mora sisters spend their time communicating with ghosts and consulting tarot cards and Clara’s three-legged table. They are an important part of Clara’s children’s lives, especially Nicolás, the only one of Clara’s children to share her interest in spiritualism. Nicolás spends many weekends away from boarding school visiting the Mora sisters, and they even introduce him to his girlfriend, Amanda. The three Mora sisters are further examples of the supernatural within the book, and the power women have in the form of empathy and intuition.
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I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—as the three Mora sisters said, who could see the spirits of ail eras mingled in space. That’s why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.
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The Mora Sisters Quotes in The House of the Spirits
The The House of the Spirits quotes below are all either spoken by The Mora Sisters or refer to The Mora Sisters. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—as the three Mora sisters said, who could see the spirits of ail eras mingled in space. That’s why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.
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