Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.

The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.

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.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Time is making fools of us again.

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

Did you know— then?" asked Harry. "Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

I think that I've had a very strange life.

Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life," Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

Promise me you'll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …' 'I always do, Mrs Weasley,' said Harry. 'I like a quiet life, you know me.

You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.

And anyway, life's too short.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.