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J. K. Rowling Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”
— J. K. Rowling, A quote by J.K. Rowling
Tagged: Books, Lovers of Books, wandering, Imagination
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”
— J. K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
Tagged: Heart And Mind, Love, Want, Acceptance, Intellect, Brain, Mind, Feelings, Thinking, emotions, Body
“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, Commencement Address at Harvard University, 2008
Tagged: Commencent Speeches, Failure
“Never wait in expectation of perfection or you'll wait forever. Do the best you can with what you've got and be one of those who dared rather than those who merely dream.”
— J. K. Rowling
Tagged: Inspiring, Those Who Dare to Make Dreams A Reality, Motivational Life Quotes, Following Your Dreams, Inspirational Quotes
“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Tagged: Seeing Beauty in Others
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”
— J. K. Rowling, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft
Tagged: fiction, Interest, literary, Imagination
“You'll stay with me? Until the very end.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: love & relationship, Relationships, Companionship, Human Beauty, Connection, Human Connection, Life, Things To Say, Romantic
“Many people think the issue is 'bad' orphanages versus 'good' ones. Institutionalisation is ALWAYS harmful to children.”
— J. K. Rowling, via twitter.com
Tagged: Orphanages, Orphans, Institutionalization, Children, Welfare of Orphans, world issues
“Rage is to righteousness as certainty is to wisdom. Constantly mistaken for each other, they're hardly ever in the same room.”
— J. K. Rowling, via twitter.com
Tagged: Rage, Certainty, righteousness, Wisdom, Values, Human Behavior
“A cat? Is that what they told you? It looks more like a pig with hair if you ask me.”
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Best of Moments
“Once there was a young man who, like you, sat in this hall. Walked this corridor. Seemed to all the world a student like any other. It was only a matter of time before we made the connection.”
— Spielman, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Tagged: young man, Pattern Recognition
“Professor Snape: Not to mention the damage you inflicted on a one ping willow that's been on the grounds since before you were born.

Ron: Honestly Professor Snape, I think it did more damage to us.”
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Best of Moments
“On Christmas Eve, Harry went to bed looking forward to the next day, for the food and the fun.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Christmas
“"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Christmas
“Because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Just Friends, Almost Love, Relationships
““Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.””
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Bless them, normal people will go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it’s staring them in the face.”
— Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Tagged: Normalcy Over Excitement, The Magic of this World Is Not Even Hidden, Quote of the Moment
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
— J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard University Commencement 2008
Tagged: Inspirational
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Indifference, Love, Dislike
“It's that anniversary again. This year, I apologise for killing someone who didn't die during the #BattleofHogwarts, but who laid down his life to save the people who'd win it. I refer, of course, to Dobby the house elf.”
— J. K. Rowling, An Apology To Harry Potter Fans
Tagged: Harry Potter, Dobby
“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”
— J. K. Rowling, SPIEGEL Interview with J.K. Rowling: 'I've Really Exhausted the Magical'- SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
Tagged: JK Rowling Quotes, The Absurdity of Being Human, Human Folly, Public Image, Ideal Self, Our True Self
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Tagged: Life, Love, Obsession
“Harry: What's that for!?

Ron: Its no joke, I'm in love with her.

Harry: Alright fine you are in love with her. Have you ever actually met her?

Ron: No... Can you introduce me?”
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Best of Moments
“A mysterious thing, time.”
— Narrator, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Tagged: Time, mysterious
“He represents the greatest threat to our cause.”
— Gellert Grindelwald, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Tagged: Threat
“The forest hides many secrets.”
— Ronan, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Forests, Woods
“Can we panic now!?”
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Best of Moments
“Harry, men have wasted away in front of it.”
— Spielman, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Tagged: deadly, wasting away
“[Speaking while intoxicated] Its beautiful isn't it? The moon.”
— Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Best of Moments
“Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.”
— J. K. Rowling, via twitter.com
Tagged: LOL, Donald Trump, Harry Potter
“Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship. But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows really what the other person is feeling. You can’t know, you can believe you know.”
— J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Reveals Dumbledore and Grindelwald Had an ‘Incredibly Intense' Sexual Relationship
“I'm INFJ. That doesn't mean we can't be buddies, though.”
— J. K. Rowling
Tagged: Oh My God, INFJ, Fellow INFJs, Myers-Briggs, Finding Out Your Lifelong Hero Is An INFJ, Best News Ever, Groundbreaking Moments, Epiphanies
“Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Music, J. K. Rowling
“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Tagged: insults, slow, Stupid
“She is nuttier than squirrel poo.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: insults, Squirrel, Poop
“The filmmakers and I are not only comfortable sticking with our original casting, but genuinely happy to have Johnny playing a major character in the movies. I accept that there will be those who are not satisfied with our choice of actor in the title role. However, conscience isn’t governable by committee. Within the fictional world and outside it, we all have to do what we believe to be the right thing.”
— J. K. Rowling, Grindelwald casting- J.K. Rowling
Tagged: Pop Culture, Casting
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