Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.