J. K. Rowling Quotes

She seized Dudley by the shoulders and shook him, as though testing to see whether she could hear his soul rattling around inside him.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

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

You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery...

"Oh Professor look! I think I found an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?" "It is Uranus, my dear," said Professor Trelawney peering down a the chart. "Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.

She would have been nice-looking if she hadn't been wearing a look that suggested there was a nasty smell under her nose.

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.

It was like trying to keep water in his cupped hands; the details were now trickling away as fast as he tried to hold on to them.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.

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. And your soul is gone forever... lost.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Proud? Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.

Oh, well... I'd just been thinking... if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

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

Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the kitchen mantelpiece and it shouted, "Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!"

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

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

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

Alas, earwax!