Practical magic Quote by Robin Swicord

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

— Alice Hoffman

“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Stephen King

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

“Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work.”

— Jason Miller

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…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young…

— Alice Hoffman

“In popular modern usage, the word grimoire refers specifically to a set of medieval European magickal texts (notebooks, journals, and teaching aids) that record…

— Aaron Leitch

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

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Alice Hoffman