Book Quotes by Joanne K. Rowling

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

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

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

After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.

'Ah, music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!'

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

Draco Malfoy: "You - the three of you - you shone you know? You liked each other. You had fun. I envied you those friendships more than anything else."

They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what – those flaws almost made them greater.

Albus Dumbledore: "Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe."

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

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.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Everything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ron: 'One person couldn't feel all that. They'd explode.'
Hermione: 'Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon.'

Curiosity is not a sin.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

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

It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? [Albus Dumbledore]

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

I do believe that something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: to think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. [Sirius Black]

'So that's little Scorpius,' said Ron under his breath. 'Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother's brains.'
'Ron, for heaven's sake,' said Hermione, half-stern, half-amused. 'Don't try to turn them against each other before they've even started school!'
'You're right, sorry,' said Ron, but unable to help himself he added, 'don't get too friendy with him, though, Rosi. Granddad Weasley would never forgive you if you married a pure-blood.'

'If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you,' said Ron, 'but no pressure.'

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

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

By all means continue destroying my possessions, I daresay I have too many.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Albus Dumbledore: 'You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you tonight, Harry. You have shown bravery equal to those who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers. You have shouldered a grown wizard's burden and found yourself equal to it.'

For a fleeting instant, Harry thought he saw a gleam of something like triumph in Dumbledore's eyes.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Remus Lupin: 'You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.'

Albus Dumbledore: 'People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.'

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Harry Potter: 'I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.'

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. 'After all this time?'
'Always', said Snape.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore: 'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.'

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore: 'It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.'

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Hermione: 'We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' and 'Cinderella'...'
Ron: 'What's that? An illness?'

Harry: 'Yes'
Snape: 'Yes, sir!'
Harry: 'There's no need to call me 'sir,' Professor.'

Although there is a lot of Christian imagery in the books. That's undeniable. But that's an allusion to a belief system in which I was raised.