Quotes from J. K. Rowling

For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.