The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

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.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

You can't feel the essence of Happiness unless you overcome your Sadness.

There is always a gift in any challenge.

When things go wrong don't go with them.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.