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Quotes From Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

  • "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." - Lily & James Potter's headstone (Deathly Hallows)
  • "Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." - Hermione Granger (Chamber of Secrets)
  • "Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night." - Fred/George Weasley (Deathly Hallows)
  • "There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to our friends." - Albus Dumbledore (Sorcerer's Stone)
  • "You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me." - Albus Dumbledore (Chamber of Secrets)
  • "According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else." - J.K. Rowling (Order of the Phoenix)
  • "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." - J.K. Rowling (Half-Blood Prince)
  • "And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort; he must abandon forever the illusion he ought to have lost at the age of one, that the shelter of a parent’s arms meant that nothing could hurt him. There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been." - J.K. Rowling (Deathly Hallows)
  • "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it brain." - Arthur Weasley (Chamber of Secrets)
  • "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
  • "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." - J.K. Rowling (Deathly Hallows)
  • "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - J.K. Rowling (Half-Blood Prince)
  • "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it." - Albus Dumbledore (?)
  • "I am not worried, Harry. I am with you." - Albus Dumbledore (Half-Blood Prince)
  • "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling (?)
  • "We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." - Kingsley Shacklebolt (Deathly Hallows)
  • "As strong as we are united. As weak as we are divided." - J.K. Rowling (?)
  • "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" - Albus Dumbledore (Deathly Hallows)
  • "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - Sirius Black (Goblet of Fire)
  • "Sometimes we have to choose between what is right and what is easy." - Albus Dumbledore (?)

Other Quotes

  • "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain
  • "Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." - Mark Twain
  • "Be the Change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
  • "Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. And live like it's heaven on Earth." - Mark Twain
  • "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
  • "A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar." - Amanda Cross
  • "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." - Mark Twain
  • "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." Oscar Wilde
  • "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou
  • "So many books, so little time." - Frank Zappa
  • "Never judge a book by its movie." - J.W. Eagan
  • "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
  • "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." - a headstone in Ireland
  • "A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty." - Andrew Wolfe
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