J.k. Rowling Quotes

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

~ J.k. Rowling

After all this time?Always...

~ J.k. Rowling

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

~ J.k. Rowling

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

~ J.k. Rowling

Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you.What if I don't care?I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault...

~ J.k. Rowling

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

~ J.k. Rowling

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

~ J.k. Rowling

So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...

~ J.k. Rowling

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

~ J.k. Rowling

Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings towards Harry are anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's flying so badly. A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode.

~ J.k. Rowling

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

~ J.k. Rowling

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

~ J.k. Rowling

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

~ J.k. Rowling

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

~ J.k. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

~ J.k. Rowling

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

~ J.k. Rowling

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

~ J.k. Rowling

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

~ J.k. Rowling

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

~ J.k. Rowling

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

~ J.k. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

~ J.k. Rowling

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

~ J.k. Rowling

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

~ J.k. Rowling

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

~ J.k. Rowling

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

~ J.k. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

~ J.k. Rowling

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

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Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

~ J.k. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

~ J.k. Rowling

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

~ J.k. Rowling

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

~ J.k. Rowling

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.

~ J.k. Rowling

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

~ J.k. Rowling

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

~ J.k. Rowling

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

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That's chess! snapped Ron. You've got to make some sacrifices!

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Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?

~ J.k. Rowling

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

~ J.k. Rowling

Hope springs forever.

~ J.k. Rowling