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But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life.
I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.
If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
I have hope because I love you – I’ve been in love with you, Avery. Probably before I even realize that I was
I think the key to the start of any good relationship is to remember how the other person likes their coffee.
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.
When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.