J. K. Rowling, Quotes

When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

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

Time is Galleons, little brother.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Hallows, not Horcruxes.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

There will always be a easy path and a right path.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

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

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?

The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it?

A good first impression can work wonders

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.