J. K. Rowling, Quotes

When in doubt, go to the library.

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY!

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

Luck can only get you so far.

There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

Books can be misleading...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

Always the tone of surpise.

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

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.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

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.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

That," said Harry, "is a really good question.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.

Love wins. It does win. We know it wins.

I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.