Practical Magic (1998)

Sandra Bullock: Sally Owens

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

• 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 : 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!

• 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.

• 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 : 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.

• Sally Owens : [cuts her hand]  My Blood.

  [cuts Gillian's hand] 

  Sally Owens : Your Blood.

  [smacks their hands together] 

  Sally Owens : *Our* Blood.

• 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.

• [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] 

  Sara : 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!

• [all drunk] 

  Gillian Owens : You southern shrew!

  Aunt Jet Owens : Ingrate!

  Aunt Frances Owens : Goodie two shoes!

  Sally Owens : WITCH!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Sally Owens : What would you do, Gilly?

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

• 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 : [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.

• 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!

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

• 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!

• 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.

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

  [to Gillian] 

  Sally Owens : Well, you do.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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 : [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?

• 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.

  Gillian 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 : 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.

• 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.

• 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 .