Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

It's 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.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

You're a wizard, Harry.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.