No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling – that really hollowed-out feeling.
Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.
Time is Galleons, little brother.
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.
Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.
As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older – Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
She can’t keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it’ll get boring.
Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
I will not calm down!
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.
Don’t, Ginny, we’ll send you loads of owls. We’ll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.
Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily – weak people, in other words...