J. K. Rowling Quotes

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I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on — on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.

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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

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He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

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Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

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Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

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I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.

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He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

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She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

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He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

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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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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 takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends.

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The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

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Just because you're allowed to use magic now you don't have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

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What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong? Oh no, Ron, came Fred's voice, very sarcastically. No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

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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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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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Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go.

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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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