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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 03b164b | Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing. You must make adjustments if you want to survive. Much becomes expendable. You get happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your fac.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 75efa78 | As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion .. | Yann Martel | ||
| dac0e84 | Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them. | Yann Martel | ||
| c335171 | In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once e.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5b7cbba | MOANING MYRTLE: What did you call me? Do I moan? Am I moaning now? AM I? AM I? SCORPIUS: No, I didn't mean . . . MOANING MYRTLE: What's my name? SCORPIUS: Myrtle. MOANING MYRTLE: Exactly -- Myrtle. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren -- a pretty name -- my name -- no need for the moaning. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8012786 | Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e7fbd8e | For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within | j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| 01740cd | ALBUS And I know I'll always be Harry Potter's son - and I will sort that out in my head - and I know compared to you my life is pretty good really and that he and I are comparatively lucky and-- SCORPIUS (interrupting) Albus, as apologies go this is wonderfully fulsome, but you're starting to talk more about you than me again, so probably better to quit while you're ahead. ALBUS smiles and stretches out a hand. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1dfc321 | Bisogna chiamare le cose con il loro nome, la paura del nome non fa altro che aumentare la paura della cosa stessa. | harry-potter paura | J.K. Rowling | |
| 22f2d83 | Professor Severus Snape was Harry's least favorite teacher. Harry also happened to be Snape's least favorite student. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9f4f1a0 | Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0eb569e | I thought your friend Ron might like this owl, as it's my fault he no longer has a rat. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| efc9c6b | Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself. | funny | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9a1ceeb | I thought you weren't speaking to us?" said Harry. "Yes, don't stop now," said Ron, "it's doing us so much good." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7c5bc69 | She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fec63e5 | What can you see in mine?" "A load of soggy brown stuff," said Harry." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5cd9f29 | He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 48f1d9b | Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7e397c8 | The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. However, I shall answer your questions unless I have a very good reason not to, in which case I beg you'll forgive me. I shall not, of course, lie." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d26c4ab | Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 872a0ab | He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptized backwards into ignorance and simplicity. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 68a2148 | La verdad -Dumbledore suspiro- es una cosa terrible y hermosa, y por lo tanto debe ser tratada con gran cuidado. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c9480ec | Bellatrix was still fighting too, fifty yards away from Voldemort, and like her master she dueled three at once: Hermione, Ginny, and Luna, all battling their hardest, but Bellatrix was equal to them, and Harry's attention was diverted as a Killing Curse shot so close to Ginny that she missed death by an inch -- He changed course, running at Bellatrix rather than Voldemort, but before he had gone a few steps he was knocked sideways. "NOT MY.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e45a374 | I mean, normally, being in lockdown, being in constant detention, it'd break me, but now -- what's the worst they can do? Bring back Moldy Voldy and have him torture me? Nope. | scorpius-malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 65fa94a | The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5377fdd | Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6aeb8ef | And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him. | deathly-hallows harry-potter jk-rowling page-698 the-forest-again | J.K. Rowling | |
| e1b4433 | Socks are Dobby's favorite, favorite clothes, sir!" he said, ripping off his odd ones and pulling on Uncle Vernon's. "I has seven now, sir. . . . But sir . . ." he said, his eyes widening, having pulled both socks up to their highest extent, so that they reached to the bottom of his shorts, "they has made a mistake in the shop, Harry Potter, they is giving you two the same!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a9c5a42 | Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed... | harry-potter j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| ed271f0 | What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like -- someone like a : an adult wizard whose advice he could ask without feeling stupid, someone who cared about him, who had had experience of Dark Magic... And then the solution came to him. It was so simple, and so obvious, that he couldn't believe it had taken so long -- . | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e093227 | Professor Mcgonagall: Why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three? Ron: Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself the exact same thing for the past six years. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| cf83e06 | Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away. | despair emotion tears violence | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5313862 | Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise... | phineas-nigellus young-people | J.K. Rowling | |
| bfdb911 | I will say it again," said Dumbledore as the phoenix rose into the air and resettled itself upon the perch beside the door. "You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you tonight. Harry. You have shown bravery equal to those who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers. You have shouldered a grown wizard's burden and found yourself equal to it - and you have now given us all we have a right to expect. You wi.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4e84e52 | To be a hero; sometimes, all it takes is having your heart in the right place. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b85d7b2 | Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5af09af | El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo que importa es la parte a la que obedecemos, eso es lo que realmente somos" Sirius Black." | jk-rowling sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1f407f7 | The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy and enjoyable silence, of the kind that grows like a vine through the long years of a good marriage, so that when everything that needs to be said has already been pronounced, it is mutually understood that there is an intimate silence that has its own loquacity. | eloquently-put | Louis de Bernières | |
| 462f9cd | Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. | art beauty fascism | Louis de Bernières | |
| 859af0d | When you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don't even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, .. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 98628f3 | Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head. | writing | Mark Haddon | |
| a892c58 | and only sticks and stones can break my bones. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 239289a | I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5c44bea | A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves. | Nicholas Sparks |