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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 68fc399 | Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| ff8076c | Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life. | life-jacket | J. K. Rowling | |
| 3c830b5 | The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. | loathe | J.K. Rowling | |
| a382fc5 | Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5abc980 | Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| abd3083 | I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmead at weekends. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3ef9965 | Potter! Weasley! What are you doing?" It was Professor McGonagall, and her mouth was the thinnest of thin lines. "We were -- we were --" Ron stammered. "We were going to -- to go and see --" "Hermione," said Harry. Ron and Professor McGonagall both looked at him. "We haven't seen her for ages, Professor," Harry went on hurriedly, treading on Ron's foot, "and we thought we'd sneak into the hospital wing, you know, and tell her the Mandrakes .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 103878e | My brain surprises even me sometimes. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ec3606d | She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5b0337e | Excellent, I think I see a few veela cousins," said George, craning his neck for a better look. "They'll need help understanding our English customs, I'll look after them. . . ." "Not so fast, Your Holeyness," said Fred, and darting past the gaggle of middle-aged witches heading the procession, he said, "Here -- ," to a pair of pretty French girls, who giggled and allowed him to escort them inside. George was left to deal with the middle-a.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2d29e7a | You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| a10517d | Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 338f81d | SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter." He puts his hat on Albus's head -- and this time he seems to take longer -- almost as if he too is confused. "SLYTHERIN!" There's a silence. A perfect, profound silence. One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it." | albus-potter albus-severus albus-severus-potter slytherin sorting-hat | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9b2a26b | Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. | kissing ron-and-hermione | J.K. Rowling | |
| 95c20f8 | Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, dipping the point of her quill into her ink pot, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f62224 | Two weeks together, that's all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e2b525f | When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. But Mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the creamatorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the .. | cremation | Mark Haddon | |
| 6bb3323 | In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. | inspirational life | Mark Haddon | |
| 885c371 | They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d5b0314 | Por favor, no te enfades conmigo los dias en que no te reconozca. Los dos sabemos que llegaran. Piensa que te quiero, que siempre te querre, y que ocurra lo que ocurra, habre tenido la mejor vida posible. Una vida contigo. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ca320dd | you might not understand but i gave you the best of me... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 656db46 | Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2074559 | He still didn't think I was good enough for you." "No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 08cb34a | Do you ever get scared? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not like you're walking around terrified all the time, even when things are going to hell around you. It's just you're....reacting, trying to stay alive. Things are happening so fast that you don't have time to think much of anything except doing your job and trying not to die. It usally affects you afterward, once you're clear. That's when you realize how close you came and sometimes you get t.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 324983c | Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101. | interrogation people story trouble | Nicholas Sparks | |
| f56527a | See me just as I see you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bff7a1a | Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6f987f5 | No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives... | life order structure | Marisha Pessl | |
| be309d9 | When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| b576605 | I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 4bfc134 | For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cacde77 | It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| df9d9a6 | the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious . | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 07ea091 | The kid pulled a Buck knife out of his pants pocket. "How about giving me your purse, bitch?" Sally hiked up his skirt, reached into his briefs and pulled out a Glock. "How about using that knife to slice off your balls?" Lula whipped a gun out of her red satin purse and Grandma hauled out her .45 long-barrel. "Day my make, punk," Grandma said. "Hey, I don't want any trouble," the kid said. "We were just having some fun." "I want to s.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9522c41 | Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory. | jesus psychology religious resurrection | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| b39281a | This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| fcc735a | That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 871003b | There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ce313c3 | It is easy to be wise after the event. | true wisdom | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 9874143 | Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristi.. | gems greed jewels murder precious-stones sherlock-holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| d8413f3 | I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was. | Claire Messud | ||
| 0fa176a | I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow. | Claire Messud | ||
| 2ad6e4b | All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram. | John Banville | ||
| 12be248 | People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it. | Zadie Smith |