43 Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman [Novel]

In Alice Hoffman’s 1995 book Practical Magic, two sisters named Gillian and Sally grow up as orphans.

Their aunts, who are responsible for raising them, teach them how to utilize their magic to accomplish their goals in life.

The sisters quickly discover, though, that enormous power also carries immense responsibility.

In 1998, a film based on the novel of the same name was released.

I have made a list of the best ‘Practical Magic’ novel quotes, sayings and captions for you.


Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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‘You can’t fall apart,’ Gillian would insist in her rich, urgent voice. ‘That’s my job,’ she’d say. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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People want to ignore what they can’t understand. They’re looking for logic at any cost. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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There’s a little witch in all of us. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

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Best Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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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, Practical Magic.

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, 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, Practical Magic.

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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. ~ Alice Hoffman, 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, Practical Magic.

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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, 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, Practical Magic.

Popular Practical Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

She doesn’t brush her hair a thousand times at night, or pluck her eyebrows, or bathe with sesame oil so her skin will stay smooth. In a world without love, what is the point of any of that? ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

‘Everything I do is wrong. You think I don’t know that? I’ve screwed up my entire existence, and everyone who’s close to me gets screwed right along with me.‘ ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

On evenings when the orange moon was rising in the sky, and some woman was crying in their kitchen, Sally and Gillian would lock pinkies and vow never to be ruled by their passions. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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There’s one factor she forgot to figure into her anxiety equation, and that’s jealousy. ~ Alice Hoffman, 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, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

Famous Magic Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. ~ 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, Practical Magic.

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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

Now whenever he kissed her, she cried and wished she had never fallen in love in the first place. It had made her too helpless, because that’s what love did. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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‘Life is for the living,’ Gillian told her. ‘Life is what you make of it. Come on. Just listen to what I’m saying. Please.‘ ~ Alice Hoffman, 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, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

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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, 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, Practical Magic.

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He kept thinking about the lifespan of a mayfly, and all the time he had wasted, and frankly he wasn’t willing to waste any more. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so that her heart began to race and she’d start to think forgiveness with every breath. It’s amazing the places that love will carry you. It’s astounding to discover just how far you’re willing to go. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

How he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

For her whole life she has been measuring herself against her sister, and she’s not going to do that anymore. That is the gift Gillian has given her tonight, and for that she will always be grateful. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.

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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, Practical Magic.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of love was to be granted your heart’s desire. ~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic.



So these were the 43 quotes from the Practical Magic novel.

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