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

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.

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.

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

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.