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Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.
And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!
You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.
There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.
It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.
You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.
He didn’t even know what it was, Vishous.” “The tux?” V lit a hand-rolled. “Of course he didn’t. He’s a real male.
Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.
I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.
In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.
Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.