The Infinite Library

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.”

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

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

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”

“Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.”

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”

“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”

“I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.”

“Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.”

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”