There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.