J. K. Rowling Quotes

Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchan...

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?" said Malfoy. "And he’s supposed to be our teacher!"H...

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

Three turns should do it.

What's that?" he snarled, staring at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's an...

An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went dee...

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with...

I know how to use a fellytone now.

You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly tha...

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

After All This Time? Always" - Snape

What's life without a little risk?

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to...

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the...

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the a...

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all ver...

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who ha...

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: w...

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within ...

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part...

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations a...

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility, or so I thought until I cast my mind ba...

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I s...

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long a...

But Death was cunning.

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. Th...

(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfe...

Hope springs forever.

...it is hard to throw off long-established love:hard, but this you must managed somehow

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining co...

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the...

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living ch...

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref...

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated im...

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surel...

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and int...

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we t...

Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the ch...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every...

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the ai...

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical websi...

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, ...

It was easy to conjure him up this morning, when everything was quiet and still. A little, ginger-be...

Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. Wi...

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated'...

Don’t get smart - you two are in a heap of trouble!” snarled Anderson. “Names!”“Names?” repeated the...

And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well,...

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—a...

Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, y...

Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ abou’ ...

One can never have enough socks

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as...

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a...

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.George!Only joking,...

You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to ...

Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.

It's leviOsa, not levioSA!

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true an...

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before,...

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve...

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the ...

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if yo...

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a s...

Stop moving!' Hermione ordered them. 'I know what this is - it's Devil's Snare!''Oh, I'm so glad we ...

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protect...

Harry flung himself out from behind the bush and pulled out his wand."EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.A...

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Don't let the Muggles get you down!

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nos...

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more po...

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding."T...

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there."Still in the showers," said Fred. "W...

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...

Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!

Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else co...

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide...

I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?""Probabl...

Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?""I don't think anyone should ride that broom just yet!"...

He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison...

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said.“My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — ...

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit ...

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark ...

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.