J.K. Rowling Quotes - Page 10

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

Jiggery pokery!” said Harry in a fierce voice. “Hocus pocus - squiggly wiggly - ”
“MUUUUUUM!” howled Dudley, “He’s doing you know what!

Bisogna chiamare le cose con il loro nome, la paura del nome non fa altro che aumentare la paura della cosa stessa

Harry―yer a wizard.

I have seen your heart, and it is mine.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

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.

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

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

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

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?'

'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood.

'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important...