Aunt Frances Owens Quotes in Practical Magic (1998)

Sally Owens: All I want is a normal life.

Aunt Frances Owens: My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!

Sally Owens: Well, it's what I want.

[making margaritas]

Aunt Frances Owens: Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog.

Aunt Jet Owens: Adder's fork and blindworm's sting...

Aunt Frances Owens: Barbados lime is just the thing.

Aunt Jet Owens: Cragged salt like a sailor's stubble!

Aunt Frances Owens: Flip the switch and let the cauldron bubble!

[all drunk]

Gillian Owens: You southern shrew!

Aunt Jet Owens: Ingrate!

Aunt Frances Owens: Goodie two shoes!

Sally Owens: WITCH!

Young Gillian Owens: [about the Owen's ancestor, Maria] Is that why they wanted to hang her? Because she was a witch?

Aunt Frances Owens: The fact that she was a bit of a heartbreaker didn't help. Nor did it help that most of her lovers had wives on the hanging committee.

Sally Owens: [after Michael's death; brings the spell book out] You brought him into my life and now I want you to bring him back. Bring him back! I have never asked you for anything. I've never asked you for spells but do this. I know you can bring him back.

Aunt Jet Owens: No, dear. We won't do that.

Aunt Frances Owens: We don't do that.

Sally Owens: But you can. You can do this. I know you can. I remember. I found it here when mommy and daddy died.

Aunt Frances Owens: Even if we did bring him back, it wouldn't be Michael. It would be something else. Something dark and unnatural.

Sally Owens: [Starts crying] I don't care what he comes back as. As long he comes back. Please do this for me. Please? Please? Please? Please?

Aunt Frances Owens: [to young Sally and Gillian] That's how you came to live with us. We tucked you into our lives then. We've raised you the best way we know how.

Aunt Jet Owens: In this house we have chocolate cake for breakfast. We never bother with silly things like bedtimes or brushing our teeth.

Aunt Frances Owens: But with the sweets comes the sour...

Aunt Jet Owens: So when you find yourself the center of attention... It's not that they hate you. It's that, well... We're different.

Aunt Jet Owens, Aunt Frances Owens: [singing] Someone left it on the porch

Aunt Frances Owens: [about the hanging of Maria; the Owen's ancestor] They feared her because she had a gift, a power that has been passed on to you children. She had the gift of magic. And it was this very gift that saved her life. She was banished to this very island. With her unborn child growing inside her belly. She waited for her lover to rescue her. But he never came. No one came. In a moment of despair, she cast a spell upon herself that she would never again feel the agony of love. But as her bitterness grew the spell turned into a curse. A curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman.

[first lines]

Aunt Frances Owens: For more than 200 years we Owens women have been blamed by everything that's ever gone wrong in this town.

Sally Owens: [about Gillian] This is insane. She keeps going through all these guys.

Aunt Frances Owens: Hopefully, someday she'll find a guy who'll go through her.

Aunt Jet Owens: Oh, dear. It seems we've not arrived in the nick of time.

Aunt Frances Owens: Well. I see our instincts are getting a little rusty.

Aunt Frances Owens: We Owens women have always created a stir.

Aunt Frances Owens: Oh come on, Jetty, even you have to admit that any man who gets involved with an Owens woman is bound to end up 6 feet under.

Aunt Jet Owens: Spare me.

Aunt Frances Owens: What about my poor Ethan?

Aunt Jet Owens: It was an accident.

Aunt Frances Owens: It was fate.

Aunt Jet Owens: [More forcefully] It was an accident.

Aunt Frances Owens: [Also more forceful] No, no, no, it was fate.

Aunt Jet Owens: [yelling] Accident!

Aunt Frances Owens: [also yelling] It was fate!

Aunt Frances Owens: [about Jimmy] We have to banish him.

Aunt Jet Owens: We have to force his spirit back into the grave.

Aunt Frances Owens: We need a full coven.

Aunt Jet Owens: Nine women. Twelve's better.

Aunt Frances Owens: [to Sally] Do you have any friends?

Sally Owens: [Cut to the Kitchen, Sally on the phone] Linda! Hi, it's Sally. I'm activating the phone tree. Look, uh, you know the - the stuff that everyone's always whispering about me... the hexes, the spells, the...? Well, here's the thing. Uh... I'm witch!