Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.
J. K. RowlingI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingI think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
J. K. RowlingHermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.
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