J. K. Rowling Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ch. 37 (2000)

• And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Men, Hair

• You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, Recovery

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ch. 12 (1999). Ellipsis in the original.

• It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Brain, Strange

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.242, Hachette UK

• You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cousin, Children, Heart

• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

• Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Eye, Miracle

• His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Dark, Golden Days

• He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Rose, Alive

• Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Desire, Desperate

• Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, People

• Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Brave, Gryffindor

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

• I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

  J. K. Rowling

  Party, Heart, Mind

• It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just went straight through. It was here,” he touched a point close to his heart, “I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me I knew what I was supposed to do, I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Snow, Movement

• He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Rip, Heart, Feels

• How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Hate, Heart

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK

• Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Miracle, Brain

• A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Hair, Decision

• Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Heart, Choices

• In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Mind, Ends

• And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Heart, Tree

• Okay, men,” he said. “And women,” said Chaser Angelina Johnson. “And women,” Wood agreed. “This is it.” “The big one,” said Fred Weasley. “The one we’ve all been waiting for,” said George. “We know Oliver’s speech by heart,” Fred told Harry, “we were on the team last year.” “Shut up, you two,” said Wood. “This is the best team Gryffindor’s had in years. We’re going to win. I know it.” He glared at them all as if to say, “Or else.” “Right. It’s time. Good luck, all of you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Team, Heart, Good Luck

• Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Mean, Greatness

• I have seen your heart, and it is mine.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Lord Voldemort, Mines

• As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and flung himself in his rusted armor at the feet of Amata, who was the kindest and most beautiful woman he had ever beheld. Flushed with success, he begged for her hand and her heart, and Amata, no less delighted, realized that she had found a man worthy of them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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