First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

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

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

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

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn’t intend to go!

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

The writing is what's most important to me.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!