Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I always felt an outsider.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

Death comes for us all in the end.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

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

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

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

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.