J. K. Rowling
Giggling should be made illegal.Collection: Made
He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’ . . .well . . . all tha’ respectable.Collection: Long
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.Collection: Women
Authority figures always attract troubleCollection: Trouble
Luck can only get you so far.Collection: Luck
If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.Collection: Forever
Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.Collection: Flower
Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?Collection: Stars
Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.Collection: Fighting
Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.Collection: Names
Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.Collection: Self
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.Collection: Feelings
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.Collection: Two
Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.Collection: Long
First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?Collection: Lying
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.Collection: Philosophy
She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?Collection: Moving
She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.Collection: Confused
She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.Collection: Eye
Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.Collection: Imagination
It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.Collection: Dark
You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.Collection: Wall
It unscrews the other way.Collection: Way
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.Collection: Memories
Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.Collection: Humor
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.Collection: Years
I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.Collection: Thinking
So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.Collection: Mother
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.Collection: Thinking
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!Collection: Tweak
P.S. I enjoy acid pops.Collection: Acid
Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?Collection: Funny Harry Potter
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!Collection: Nudge Nudge
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.Collection: Inspirational
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!Collection: Inspirational
For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.Collection: Death Eaters
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.Collection: Morning
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his--" Yes, he sounds like a real charmer," said Hermione, while Harry roared with laughter. Never married, for some reason," said Ron.Collection: Running
Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!Collection: Magic
Would it hurt to die?Collection: Hurt
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.Collection: Needs
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.Collection: Running
Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.Collection: Voice
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.Collection: Inspirational Harry Potter
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.Collection: Tea Leaves
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?Collection: Doors
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?Collection: Pet
Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?Collection: Bones
We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.Collection: Teacher