Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.