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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4943dc9 | There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d43adeb | He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ac895cb | It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Harry that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, it had been a quite personal question. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| aa4f1f3 | When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9da6830 | Authority figures always attract trouble | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 257b78f | Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. | harry-potter jk-rowling love mother rowling sorcerer-s-stone | J.K.Rowling | |
| cffb062 | They're off, and the big excitement this match is the Firebolt that Harry Potter is flying for Gryffindor. According to Which Broomstick, the Firebolt's going to be the broom of choice for the national teams at this year's World Championship --" "Jordan, would you mind telling us what's going on in the match?" interrupted Professor McGonagall's voice. "Right you are, Professor -- just giving a bit of background information -- the Firebolt, .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a939ecb | Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? And a whisper, a whisper about the Potters... | potter potterhead rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| fb7540c | The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 44af3ef | I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. | imagination inspirational monsters | J.K. Rowling | |
| 27b5e1c | Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4eebdae | While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0984ef9 | Prongs rode again last night. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d69cd9c | Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ba91bc5 | Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 940e43c | In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole w.. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 6c48118 | It's not worth getting upset about, Mrs. Dominic. Down in the city they don't know how the other half lives, and they can afford the luxury of doting on their animals as if they were children. Out here it's different. You'll never see man, woman or child in need of help go ignored out here, yet in the city those same people who dote on their pets will completely ignore a cry of help from a human being. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| f0335ba | people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. | intelligent-design | Mark Haddon | |
| fcbc5e9 | A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, "What do you want to do today?" you say, "I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters," but you don't say, "I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper" | Mark Haddon | ||
| 43ee091 | And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinki.. | interesting new thinking vacation | Mark Haddon | |
| 0c9a195 | I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings. | dogs relationships | Mark Haddon | |
| 328eaa4 | I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people. | Mark Haddon | ||
| c1a2058 | As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8112f8e | He received a phone call, And memories of the past rose anew. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| da91470 | You are in so much more trouble than I thought you were! | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e875fe8 | Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| da59290 | When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms.If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ff80366 | I want you to be.... happy. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 44c000a | How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a916446 | Thank you for trusting me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6e314e6 | He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren't. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3752b60 | I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I'd ever seen." She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. "I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 093b76b | She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be. | choices-and-consequences heartbreak marriage | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 8891b4e | Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6bda346 | Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 430f2b8 | I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and ge.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0432293 | It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 55451cb | People hide the truth because they're afraid. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 29192bc | And I had no regrets about the way I turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not about the destination. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 809a539 | Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3850fa1 | It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them. | loss love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 1e10484 | Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. | city-of-ember friendship jeanne-duprau lef-out loneliness longing people-of-sparks sadness sweet | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| 13bc8d8 | Never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better. Increasing the scale, the depth of content, the universal themes. And I don't care.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 4c8185f | Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?" "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me." "That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not." " | Janet Evanovich |