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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth
What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.
Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.
That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!
A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?
You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.
Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!
The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.
Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.