J.K. Rowling

"Love as powerful as your mother’s leaves its own mark…To have been loved so deeply… Will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark."

- J.K. Rowling

"Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

""After all this time? Always.""

- J.K. Rowling

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

- J.K. Rowling

"Is “fat” really the worst thing a human being can be? Is “fat” worse than “vindictive,” “jealous,” “shallow,” “vain,” “boring,” or “cruel”? Not to me."

- J.K. Rowling

"The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- J.K. Rowling

"It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

- J.K. Rowling

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

- J.K. Rowling

"The mirror is a portal to self-discovery, revealing our inner thoughts and desires."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"Anything's possible if you've got have enough nerve."

- J.K. Rowling

"The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet… Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experience. They can think themselves into other people’s places… We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived."

- J.K. Rowling

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got have enough nerve."

- J.K. Rowling

"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced... It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again."

- J.K. Rowling

"Sad hurts, but it’s a healthy feeling."

- J.K. Rowling

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

- J.K. Rowling

"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope."

- J.K. Rowling

"It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there because it's not sadness."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- J.K. Rowling

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I built my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success."

- J.K. Rowling

"When in doubt, go to the library."

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

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"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on that’s who we really are."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilites."

- J.K. Rowling

"When in doubt go to the library."

- J.K. Rowling

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

- J.K. Rowling

"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."

- 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."

- J.K. Rowling

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"We do not need magic to change the world, we can carry all the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatization that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- 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."

- J.K. Rowling

"Saying it is impossible to live without failing at something is impossible. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

""It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all―in which case, you fail by default.""

- J.K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"One can never have enough socks."

- J.K. Rowling

"It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated."

- J.K. Rowling

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."

- J.K. Rowling

""If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.""

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"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

- J.K. Rowling

"What is life without a little risk?"

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"Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life."

- J.K. Rowling

"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."

- J.K. Rowling

"Turning thirty is like entering a new chapter of a book – the plot thickens, the characters evolve, and the story becomes all the more captivating."

- J.K. Rowling

"the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Mischief managed."

- J.K. Rowling

"People very often say to me, ‘How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?’ And the answer is – I didn’t do housework for four years. I am not Superwoman. And um, living in squalor, that was the answer."

- J.K. Rowling

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

- J.K. Rowling

"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."

- J.K. Rowling

"The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters."

- J.K. Rowling