Potters Quotes - Page 11

• I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Hands, Water

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes." "Have a biscuit, Potter.

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Biscuits, Professors

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• Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Blood, Nurse

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• Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Pubs

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• Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Emotional, Funny Harry Potter

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• Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Yeah, Said

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• Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Way, Unusual

  1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, opening lines.

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• The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mind, Complexes

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• I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

  Janet Fitch

  Hands, Clay, Feels

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Simple, Ideas

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• I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Men, Forgive Me

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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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• According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

  J. K. Rowling

  Scar, Deeper, Harry Potter

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• These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Eye, Holy Grail

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mean, Cake, Size

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.52, Penguin

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• As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wisdom, Money, Two

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• Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

  Lorrie Moore

  Country, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 17, 2011

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• Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Dark, Honey

  Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Fear, Remus Lupin

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• Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

  Steven Levitt

  Girl, Reading, Twilight

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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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• Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Eye, Said Life, Luck

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.143, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time, Giving, Strange

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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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• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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