J. K. Rowling

“And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?”

“But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly. “Severus . . .” The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleadin...”

“But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the...”

“Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got...”

“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...”

“Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.”

“Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig’s cage, the Firebolt, and his rucksack slipped from be...”

“I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”

“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

“Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.”

“Something very magical happens when you read a good book:)”

“The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of...”

“Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.”

“She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.”

“Time is Galleons, little brother.”

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”

“said Sirius seriously”

“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”