J. K. Rowling, Quotes

You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.

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

He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment!

You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione.

Would he ever have the strength to stop looking?

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.

No, Harry, you listen, " said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.

the world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.

True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits.

It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

Oh, are you doing magic? Let’s see it, then.”She sat down. Ron looked taken aback.“Er — all right.”He cleared his t

The Prime Minister gazed hopelessly at the pair of them for a moment, then the words he had fought to suppress all evening burst from him at

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, page 299

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

Harry―yer a wizard.

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.

Play to your strengths.""I haven’t got any, " said Harry, before he could stop himself."Excuse me, " growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at?

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.

Merlin's pants!

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig.

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sorry as he felt for himself.

Don’t let it worry you, " said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand.

Why are you worrying about you-know-who?You should be worrying about u-no-poo!The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

What an idiot.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

Hagrid: Harry -- yer a wizard.Harry: I'm a what?

Ron: [mimicking Hermione] "It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR." She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends!

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-""She's foul enough to be one...""Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

It's just hard, " Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

I—I didn't think—""That, " said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well, how can that be real?""Prove that it is not, " said Xenophilius.Hermione looked out

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not, ” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

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.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

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