Sally Owens Quotes in Practical Magic (1998)

Sally Owens: [Sally's letter to Gillian] Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. The moon tonight, there's a circle around it. Sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know. Maybe I had my happiness. I don't want to believe it but, there is no man, Gilly. Only that moon.

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.

Sally Owens: Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria's curse? I'd like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can.

Sally Owens: I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Sally Owens: And I don't want them dancing naked under the full moon!

Aunt Jet Owens: No, of course. The nudity is entirely optional. As you well remember!

Children: Witch! Witch! You're a bitch! Witch! Witch! You're a bitch!

Sally Owens: You'd think after three hundred years they'd come up with a better rhyme!

Gary Hallet: Did you or your sister kill James Angelov?

Sally Owens: Yeah, a couple of times.

Sally Owens: Since when is being a slut a crime in this family?

Sally Owens: Louis L'amour, who, by the way, was not a foreigner! He was from North Dakota, you asshole!

[all drunk]

Gillian Owens: You southern shrew!

Aunt Jet Owens: Ingrate!

Aunt Frances Owens: Goodie two shoes!

Sally Owens: WITCH!

Sally Owens: [cuts her hand] My Blood.

[cuts Gillian's hand]

Sally Owens: Your Blood.

[smacks their hands together]

Sally Owens: *Our* Blood.

Sally Owens: [Looks at Gary's eyes in the middle of kissing him] One green eye, one blue... no, I can't. I have to go.

[Leaves in haste]

Gary Hallet: [Confused] I was born with them!

Sally Owens: Dear Gillian, Today is our third anniversary and all I have to show for it are two beautiful little girls and a husband I just can't stop kissing. I don't even mind the beard. But I wish you could see us. No more stones being thrown, no taunts cried out. Everything is just so blissfully normal. Life is perfect.

Gary Hallet: So what kind of, uh... craft do you do?

Sally Owens: I manufacture bath oils and soaps... hand lotions... shampoo. And the Aunts, um... they like to meddle in people's love lives.

Gary Hallet: What was that, Sally? That was him, wasn't it? Is he gone or what?

Sally Owens: Yes, you killed his spirit, but I know I took his life. I'll tell you all need to know. I'll tell you how I did it, where I buried him, what I did it with. I'll tell you how...

Gary Hallet: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on just a goddamn second, all right? One step at a time. I took on oath to uphold the law. I came here to bring in the bad guy because generally that's what I do. You asked me how many times I read your letter. I must've read it about a thousand times. I know now, it was your letter anything else that brought me here. It was you. And I'm all mixed-up about that.

[after they make a binder ring snap on a mother's finger]

Sally Owens: [to Gillian] Don't do that.

Gillian Owens: It wasn't me, it was you!

[Both giggling]

Mother: Oh I am so please to report this, and the top of the phone tree list is... wait a minute, it's Sally Owens.

[confused; flips through phone tree and finds Sally's name at the top of each list]

Gillian Owens: Wooo! Go, Sal!

[aside to Sally]

Gillian Owens: Now that was me!

Sally Owens: I feel like I'm never going to see you again.

Gillian Owens: Of course you're going to see me again! We'll grow old together. It's going to be you and me living in a big house... these two old biddies with all these cats. I bet we even die on the same day.

Sally Owens: We were going to open a botanical shop. Where Mike would get all the ingredients and I'd make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn't stop eating it.

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?

Gary Hallet: You're saying what I'm feeling is just one of your spells?

Sally Owens: Yeah. It's not real. And if you stay, I wouldn't know if it was because of the spell and... you wouldn't know if it was because I didn't want to go to prison.

Gary Hallet: Yeah, well... you know, all relationships have problems.

Gillian Owens: [about Officer Hallet] Is he cute?

Sally Owens: Yeah, he's... nice... in a very penal code sort of way, yeah.

Sally Owens: What would you do, Gilly?

Gillian Owens: What wouldn't I do... for the right guy?

Gillian Owens: [possessed by Jimmy Angelov's spirit; crying] He wants me... just me. Everyone will be all right. Let him take me...

Sally Owens: Don't die on me, Gillian Owens, please. 'Cause - we're supposed to die together, remember? The same time. You promised me that. And this is not that day.

Sally Owens: You should know she has the worst taste in men.

Sally Owens: [to Gillian] Well, you do.

Gary Hallet: I got people telling me that you're up here cooking up placenta bars, that you're into devil worship...

Sally Owens: [cuts him off] No. No, there's no devil in the craft.

Sally Owens: [to Gary] Your badge - it's just a star, just another symbol. Your talisman. It can't stop criminals in their tracks, can it? It has power because you believe it does. Wish you could believe in me.

Sally Owens, Gillian Owens: [Reciting a spell to resurrect Jimmy] Black as night, erase death from our sight. White as light, Mighty Hectate make it right.

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.

Sally Owens: [to Gary] The reason you're here and you don't know why is because I sent for you.

Sally Owens: It was the curse, wasn't it? He died because I loved him so much.

Gary Hallet: Where is James Angelov?

Sally Owens: [matter-of-fact] I think he's in the spirit world.

Gary Hallet: You think he's dead?

Sally Owens: No, I think he's haunting us.

Sally Owens: [to Gillian, while burying Jimmy] You have... the worst taste... in men.

Sally Owens: I want you both to watch what you say to those girls. I don't you filling their heads with any of your nonsense, okay?

Aunt Jet Owens: We'd never tell them nonsense, dear.

Gillian Owens: Please, God, if you get us out of this, I'll be good. I'll have babies!

Sally Owens: I have babies, Gillian. I had normal. And I worked really hard to get that normal.

Sally Owens: You really should stop smoking so much.

Gillian Owens: Why? I'll probably get life. I should smoke two at once. It'll shorten the sentence.

Sally Owens: [Performing a spell] Okay! I need for you to get me something white to write on top of the star. Chop-chop!

Gillian Owens: [Grabs a can of whip cream] This is all I could find.

Gary Hallet: [about the herb Belladonna] Some people also use it as a poison.

Sally Owens: Which people?

Gary Hallet: Witch people.

Sally Owens: Ah-ha.

Gary Hallet: Witches.

Sally Owens: I guess you found me out, huh? Yeah.

Gary Hallet: Yes, I did

Sally Owens: [Tone hardens] You should come round here on Halloween. You'd really see something then.

Gillian Owens: [Angrily] Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're always right, Sally. Oh, I'm just a mess. Just one big mess! Well, at least I've lived my life. And you hate me for that because... because it scares the hell out of you.

Sally Owens: Gillian, I don't hate you.

Sally Owens: [Still angry] Look at you! You spend all your energy just trying to fit in, be normal! But you're never gonna fit in, Sal, because we're different!

Gillian Owens: I love you.

Sally Owens: I love you too, Gilly Bean.

Sally Owens: [to Gillian, about Jimmy] So you're drugging your boyfriend to get a little shut-eye? Doesn't that seem a little strange to you?

Sally Owens: [Annoyed] Gillian, if you're going to work here, maybe you could... I dunno... Work?

Gillian Owens: I am. I'm testing the merchandise.

Sally Owens: [When Gillian interrupts her parents meeting at school] All that's missing now is me naked without my homework .

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!