“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”
― Practical Magic
― Practical Magic
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
― The Real Thing
― The Real Thing
“Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
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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.”
― Practical Magic
― Practical Magic
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