Quotes from J. K. Rowling

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

I'll make Goyle do lines, it'll kill him, he hates writing," said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle's low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon's... backside.

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.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus [never tickle a sleeping dragon]

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Harry found the hot drink... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.