Practical Magic Quotes

• My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

  Alice Hoffman

  Girl, Aunt, Magic

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from Feb 16, 2016

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• Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.

  Alice Hoffman

  Song, Falling In Love, Stars

  "Fictional characters: Young Sally Owens, Young Gillian Owens". "Practical Magic", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

  Alice Hoffman

  Fate, Trying, Matter

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.34, Penguin

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• I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

  Alice Hoffman

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.103, Penguin

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• People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Cost, Want

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.78, Penguin

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• He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wish, Looks, Goes On

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.136, Penguin

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• She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Home, Mean

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.43, Penguin

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• I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Lying, Down And

  "Practical Magic". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, May

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.162, Penguin

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• Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Mean, Sometimes

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.44, Penguin

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• Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

  Alice Hoffman

  Fall, Love Is, Arms

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• It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Home, Mean

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.43, Penguin

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• The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

  Alice Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Jealous

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2016

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• Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

  Alice Hoffman

  Done, Sometimes, Feels

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016

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• I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Believe, Magic

  Stephen King (2016). “Night Journey”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Magic, Unseen

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

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