For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. Thatโs a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing thatโs glaring at you has got legs. If it has, itโs safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, thatโs still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
J. K. RowlingI'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.
J. K. RowlingLove is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about - the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is "I love you". What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.
J. K. Rowling