J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)

Quotes

• His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

• You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

• Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

• There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

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

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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

• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

• It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

• You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.

• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

• What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

• There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.

• Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

• It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.