J.K. Rowling Quotes - Page 8

At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.

Well, I don’t know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts.

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

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

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

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

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked.
Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes."
Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.