Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!โ said Hermione. โWe didnโt hear stories like that when we were little, we heard โSnow White and the Seven Dwarfsโ and โCinderellaโ โโ โWhatโs that, an illness?โ asked Ron.
J. K. RowlingWhatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.
J. K. RowlingI DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
J. K. RowlingI don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingOne of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other peopleโs lives simply by existing.
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