J. K. Rowling Quotes

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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Dumbledore: It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

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Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.

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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

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Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry. 'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...' 'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!' 'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

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Fred and George turned to each other and said together, Wow — we're identical!

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Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

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Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

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She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

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I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

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Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

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Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

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It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

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Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

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The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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It would be one way to kill off the merchandising.

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The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

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I'm in that benign form of house arrest that is looking after a baby.

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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

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I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job.

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

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