Quotes from Practical Magic — Alice Hoffman
born 1952 United States
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
Practical Magic (1995)
There's a little witch in all of us.
Practical Magic (1995)
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. (p84)
Practical Magic (1995)
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. (p145)
Practical Magic (1995)
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. (p59)
Practical Magic (1995)
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." (p161)
Practical Magic (1995)
Many of us know what it's like to try to escape a family legacy of one sort or another, only to discover that in the long run we carry our heritage with us no matter how far we might run.
Practical Magic (1995)
The family dynamics are complex; and as often happens in our own lives, how we view the people close to us, even when they are fictional characters, depends on where we stand in the world at that time.
Practical Magic (1995)