In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

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.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.