Harry Potter Quotes

• We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Inspirational, Dark

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• You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Grief, Sorrow

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• Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Exercise, Curiosity, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

  J. K. Rowling

  Justice, Black, Want

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• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

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• I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Focus, Feelings

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• Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Good Day, Hair

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• To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Potters, Deathly Hallows

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• Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Life Changing, Mean

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Good Night, Travel

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.52, Pottermore

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• Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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• We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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• He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Feelings, Mind

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• Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

  J. K. Rowling

  Integrity, Boys, Choices

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• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Family, Home

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• ... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Silly, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Silly, Inspire

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". m.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Names, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

  J. K. Rowling

  Leadership, Power, Potters

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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

  J. K. Rowling

  Blood, Potters, Matter

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• One can never have enough socks

  J. K. Rowling

  Christmas, Enough, Funny Christmas

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• 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)

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