Practical Magic

"Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it.

If there's one thing Sally is now certain of, it's how you can amaze yourself by the things you're willing to do.

They told her how sticks and stones could break bones, but taunting and name-calling were only for fools.

"That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing,"

She couldn't abide those poor, incoherent women who came to the aunts' back door, and she could not stand to be one of them now, wild with grief, overcome with what some people call love.

most things men say are lies.

He's the kind of man you'd never want to lose once you'd finally found him.

"You don't have to make any excuses for who you love," Gary says. "Don't apologize."

Money, love, or fury—those are the causes for most everything.

The wrong word said at the wrong time, a gun in the wrong hand, the wrong woman who kisses you just right.