Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.