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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | harry-potter page-698 the-forest-again jk-rowling deathly-hallows | 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. | violence emotion tears despair | 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. | beauty art 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 | ||
| 4db6d4e | You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be716c8 | Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 52e328f | That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. | words true change speaking feel power | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 6f2acbd | I understand, Ira. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7f2a597 | mn lmstHyl 'n tHmy 'Tflk mn lHbT 'w khyb@ l'ml lty sySdfwnh fy Hythm | life-lessons foil novels | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 15681d8 | She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be8ceb3 | There are lots of men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 66c0d88 | The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a77ed41 | lns yjhdwn 'nfshm hkdh lthlth@ 'sbb : m l'nhm mjnyn , 'w Hmq~ , 'w yHwlwn lnsyn | people novel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 9ea8009 | The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already. | relationships relationship love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| ea15cfc | somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 15f1ed6 | And that was our beginning. It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 02ddede | He put his arms around her. "Well, in my defense, then, whatever I did seemed to work, didn't it?" She sighed. "I suppose." "You suppose?" "What do you want? A medal?" "For starters. A trophy would be nice, too." She smiled. "What do you think you're holding right now?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3cbe86b | What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b47ddf2 | Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you." "No, I don't," Thibault began. "Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7d01d59 | And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8d6276f | Whatever you decide to do, remember that you have to be able to go forward in life without looking back. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b273192 | I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0c1cffa | How far should a person go in the name of love? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 047f852 | She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f07a5d7 | Moe was a triple threat." "He could sing, dance, and act?" She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2065b17 | It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim back the plants, but every one of us is just days away from a wild jungle. And it's the jungle that interests me. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| dac4eb9 | You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 98b1949 | Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly." | life | Marisha Pessl | |
| 66ef174 | Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called "going Chekhovian:" some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| d2bf380 | His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves. | Marisha Pessl |