J. K. Rowling Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Inspirational Harry Potter, Dementors

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Writing, Popularity

• Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose their parents, yet the idea of being removed from the expectations of parents is alluring. The orphan in literature is freed from the obligation to satisfy his/her parents, and from the inevitable realization that his/her parents are flawed human beings. There is something liberating, too, about being transported into the kind of surrogate family which boarding school represents, where the relationships are less intense and the boundaries perhaps more clearly defined.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Children, School

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

• I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!" Dudley and Piers sniggered. "I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Uncles, Car

• For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Clouds

• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Past, Clouds

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

• By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Voice, Feelings

• The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man’s dream!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Men, Desperate

• Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Hands, Perfect

• The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Reality, Wind

• Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Dream, Girlfriend

• A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Boys

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