J. K. Rowling Quotes

“In dark and difficult times, we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”

If you want to see the true measures of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals

Why had he never apprecited the miracle he was, brain and nerve and pounding heart? It would all be gone...

Or if he could have launched himself in front of a wand to save someone he loved... He envied even his parents' deaths now. This cold-blooded walk to his own destruction would require a different kind of bravery

Yet it did not occur to him now to try to escape, to outrun Voldemort. It was over, he knew it, and all that was left was the thing itself: dying.

Terror washed over him as he lay on the floor, with that funeral drum pounding inside him. Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought that it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself. His will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

...through grounds that seemed themselves to have risen in rebellion.

There was silence in the hall, now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls.

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.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself and what those closest to me expected of me.

As you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called "real life", I want to extoll the crucial importance of imagination.

I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

I'll join you when hell freezes over! Dumbledore's Army!

So young, to be fighting so many.

I don't think you're a waste of space...You saved my life.