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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c9cb4ab | Are you threatening me, sir?" he said, so loudly that passersby actually turned to stare. "Yes, I am," said Mad-Eye, who seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so quickly. "And do I look like the kind of man who can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving magical eye. Uncle Vernon leapt backward in horror and collided painfully with a l.. | mad-eye-moody uncle-vernon | J.K. Rowling | |
| f3ff686 | I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, wourked out the truth... And they didn't desert me at all. Instead they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi. (...) They couldn't keep me company as humans, so they kept me company as animals. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 184db30 | The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| aebc9a7 | Oh, come off it," said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. "Yep-- ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at Defense Against the Dark Arts." He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. "You're actually disappointed, aren't you?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 725d9bc | He'll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren' . . .well . . . all tha' respectable. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1069e8c | That's what yer little sister said,' said Hagrid, nodding at Ron. Met her jus' yesterday.' Hagrid looked sideways at Harry, his beard twitching. 'Said she was jus' lookin' round the grounds, but I reckon she was hopin' she might run inter someone else at my house.' He winked at Harry. 'If yeh ask me, she wouldn' say no ter a signed-' 'Oh, shut up,' said Harry. Ron snorted with laughter and the ground was sprayed with slugs. | harry-potter humour | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0124e1f | Blimey," said the other twin. "Are you -- ?" "He is," said the first twin. "Aren't you?" he added to Harry. "What?" said Harry. "Harry Potter," chorused the twins. "Oh, him," said Harry. "I mean, yes, I am." -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a569930 | Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 69fa5d7 | I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter - " "But this is touching, Severus," said Dumbledore seriously. "Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?" "For him?" shouted Snape. "Expecto Patronum!" From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 81db09e | They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 521aa3f | But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 8d61461 | I see everything. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4349f36 | You can't see the forest for the trees. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d5319c8 | You're probably the most boring teenager in the world. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 13f7a27 | I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go. | let-go move-on | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 24d59c7 | I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I.. | love sadness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 17d8b39 | Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 331637a | I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 46201a3 | Maybe God has a bigger plan for me that i had for myself, likes,this journey never ends, | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 43938b6 | Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too. | special-someone | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c058eff | He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never imagined could be hers. A life without the rigid limitations others had always set for her. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 19d8568 | I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 19ce38c | In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a31edc4 | Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my dream. Allie | the-notebook | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 107d864 | Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 14a1507 | To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful. | painful sensitive | Marisha Pessl | |
| bab6d95 | Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9d0146e | It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1929059 | It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving. But if he had stayed... His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 503fbff | I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me, and I'd been stun gunned. The cobwebs cleared, and I discounted stun gunning. "What happened?" I asked Morelli. "You fainted." "That's ridiculous." "I agree, but if someone sent me a dead woman I might faint, too." He was down on one knee, bending over me. "Are you ready to get up?" "I need a moment." "Don't .. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e6e23ff | And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2fbad95 | All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f052682 | If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. | Lois Lowry | ||
| a52302a | I'm going to give you the memory of a rainbow. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 85c06c6 | Hyn ykwn lSwt lnsny Hqyqyan, Hyn ywld mn lHjh l~ lklm, l 'Hd ystTy` 'n ywqfh. Hyn ymn` `nh lfm, ytHdth bl'ydy w l'`yn, blmsm, 'w b'y shyy' akhr. l'n kl wHd mn ldyh shyy' yqwlh llakhryn, shyy' ystHq 'n yHtfy bh lakhrwn 'w ySfHw `nh | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| daae964 | Si Eva hubiera escrito el Genesis, ?como seria la primera noche de amor del genero humano? Eva hubiera empezado por aclarar que ella no nacio de ninguna costilla, ni conocio a ninguna serpiente, ni ofrecio manzanas a nadie, y que Dios nunca le dijo que pariras con dolor y tu marido te dominara. Que todas esas historias son puras mentiras que Adan conto a la prensa. | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 625813c | All I know is this: art is art, or it's shit | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 2461c42 | If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| fb1b52e | Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others. | leadership | Jack Weatherford | |
| 91492cb | Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 196e747 | It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. | writing writing-process | Zadie Smith | |
| 7da6992 | Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. | friendship words | Zadie Smith | |
| 8eed5bf | What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens" | Libba Bray | ||
| 70ad634 | When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands. | Libba Bray |