Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair.

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.

Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode.

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.