It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again
J. K. RowlingIn the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
J. K. RowlingYes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.
J. K. RowlingStudying the young womanโs 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.
J. K. RowlingI hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
J. K. Rowling