Practical Magic is a famous novel by Alice Hoffman.
Practical Magic is about the story of the Owens sisters and their experiences with love and life.
The Practical Magic book has been liked by readers as well as critics who praised it for its themes of love and desire.
We have curated best quotes from the Practical Magic novel.
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Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman
“Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“People want to ignore what they can’t understand. They’re looking for logic at any cost.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“No one knows you like a person with whom you’ve shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms – those poor creatures don’t know the first thing about time or agony or the price they’re going to have to pay for just about everything.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Real love was dangerous. It got you from inside and held on tight. And if you didn’t let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
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Best Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman
“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 (quote from Practical Magic).
“Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“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 (quote from Practical Magic).
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn’t set him off.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who’ve been in love with the wrong man too often.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Although she’d never believe it, those lines in Gillian’s face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she’s gone through and what she’s survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
Quotes from Practical Magic
“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn’t let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Some people can’t be warned away from disaster, you can try, you can put up every alert, but they’ll still go their own way.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“In the dark morning light, her gray eyes look completely green, as though they belonged to a cat that can see in the dark.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that’s not easy to forget.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Some dates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
Top Practical Magic Quotes
“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn’t feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“He has stumbled into love, and now he’s stuck there. He’s fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he’s dealt with it, yet he can’t help but wonder if that’s only because he didn’t want anything too badly.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Lightning, like love, is never ruled by logic.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“It was a small ceremony at the town hall, and they didn’t exchange wedding rings, but they kissed for so long at the counter in the hall of records that they were asked to leave.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“A fortuneteller at a magicians’ convention in Atlantic City once told him that when he fell in love it would be forever, and he laughed at the notion, but now he sees that reading was completely on target.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a language you can’t begin to understand.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“You can never tell about a person by guessing…that’s why language was invented. Otherwise, we’d all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
Profound Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman
“If she doesn’t make a move soon, they’re all going to pass her by and she’ll still be a child, afraid to leave her room, afraid to grow up.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Owens women ignored convention; they were headstrong and willful, and meant to be that way.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“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 (quote from Practical Magic).
“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 (quote from Practical Magic).
“They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
Famous Practical Magic Quotes
“If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“It had made her too helpless, because that’s what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.” ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.
“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you’re left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“All this kissing was making her crazy; it was reminding her of what she could feel, and how it could be when you wanted someone as much as he wanted you.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
“Nothing could do that to them, that’s what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.” ~ Alice Hoffman (quote from Practical Magic).
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