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J.K. Rowling Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Words, Writing, Injury, Healing, Pain
“On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Countryside, Patchwork, Nature
“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Best Literary Quotes, Literature Quotes, Literature
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
Tagged: Friendship, activities, Love
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
— J.K. Rowling, Learning Disabilities and Related Mild Disabilities
Tagged: Books, Reading, Magic
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, caring
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Friendship, Bravery
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Love, Protection
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: dread, Time
“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.”
— J.K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard University Commencement 2008
Tagged: Failure
“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, Harvard Speech
Tagged: impossible, Dream, Dreaming
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: character
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)
Tagged: Truth
“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, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Loss
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Tagged: Happiness, Light, Darkness
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Death, Life, Love
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)
Tagged: Evil, Good, Power
“'Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”
— J.K. Rowling, Fan Fiction And Copyright
Tagged: fat, Criticism, Weight, Personality
“Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: wounds, Healing
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