J. K. Rowling, Quotes

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?" "Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione. "Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

You're a wizard, Harry.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Let muggles manage without us!

Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

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

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are...so proud of you.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?

I would always want printed books.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

How come the Muggles don’t hear the bus?” said Harry. “Them!” said Stan contemptuously. “Don’ listen properly, do they? Don’ look properly either. Never notice nuffink, they don’.

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

I received free health care.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

It unscrews the other way.

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

I can't give a Professor love!

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.