I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

— J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling Quotes

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.

— J.K. Rowling
Motivational Courage Failure Deep About Life Short Inspiring

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

— J.K. Rowling
Sad Sad About Life About Feelings Suffering

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

— J.K. Rowling
About Books And Reading Fiction Encouraging for Students Knowledge Clever

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

— J.K. Rowling
Failure Inspirational for Women Recovery Survival

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

— J.K. Rowling
Encouraging for Students Compassion Motivational for Students School

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours’ writing. Nothing.

— J.K. Rowling

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...

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Oh please,” said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. “I don’t think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?” “I’ve used it against him,” Harry said quietly. “It saved my life last June.

— J.K. Rowling

For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

— J.K. Rowling

Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner’s reflection.

— J.K. Rowling

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry’s mind was in freefall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossiblity, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying -.

— J.K. Rowling

Mad Eye’ Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: “Not nice,” he said calmly. “Not pleasant. And there’s no counter curse. There’s no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he’s sitting right in front of me.

— J.K. Rowling

What are you doing with all those books anyway?” Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us,” said Hermione. When we’re looking for the Horcruxes.” Oh, of course,” said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. “I forgot we’ll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

— J.K. Rowling
Book

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

— J.K. Rowling

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

— J.K. Rowling

As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard’s robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

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Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

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When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow – we’re identical!

— J.K. Rowling

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 a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

— J.K. Rowling

You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per’aps you hoped?” said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. “What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!” she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her.

— J.K. Rowling
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