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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3b0d750 | Many years before, she had read, and recognized as true, the words of W. B. Yeats: 'A Pity beyond all telling is hit at the heart of love'. She had smiled over the poem, and stroked the page, because she had known both that she loved Colin, and that compassion formed a huge part of her love. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9a7efb5 | So all I've got to wait for now is Snape to steal the Stone," Harry went on feverishly, "then Voldemort will be able to come and finish me off. ... Well, I suppose Bane'll be happy." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9cd785c | Okay, I've only just found out the final lineup for Slytherin," said Angelina, consulting a piece of parchment. "Last year's Beaters, Derrick and Bole, have left now, but it looks as though Montague's replaced them with the usual gorillas, rather than anyone who can fly particularly well. They're two blokes called Crabbe and Goyle. I don't know much about them--" "We do," said Harry and Ron together. "Well they don't look bright enough to t.. | humorous-quotes quidditch | J.K. Rowling | |
| a85e6b2 | Brookfield will never forget his lovableness," said Cartwright, in a speech to the School. Which was absurd, because all things are forgotten in the end." | James Hilton | ||
| 26fbf04 | It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy. | lost love shangri-la | James Hilton | |
| 4648f58 | Have you seen my grandson?" "He's fighting," said Harry. "Naturally," said the old lady proudly. "Excuse me, I must go and assist him." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5b81a85 | He'll have that scar forever. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 492a1fd | Harry, you've got to come and stay with us. I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now --" "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year. ..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e47c1b8 | I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you. | chapter-26 half-blood-prince harry-potter j-k-rowling page-578 | J.K. Rowling | |
| b58e0c4 | Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch." | Nancy Friday | ||
| 9bd8e04 | If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and, though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that -- warm things, kind things, sweet things -- help and comfort and laughter -- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0ebe346 | There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real. | fairy-tale fairy-tales fantasy magic manifestation princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 6cd98b0 | Neither do I -- to speak truth. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3744a70 | You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll -- doll -- doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5115cb7 | Tratare de descubrir que significa para mi la magia pues creo que hay magia en todo lo que nos rodea. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ccba9d7 | It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9c3fe75 | They're a pair of young Satans. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9921ff5 | Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 2469a31 | What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| f0dad84 | Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of living of society as a whole and how that is affected by particular decisions made by individuals and institutions. One of the ways of doing this is to look at economic policies and economic systems in terms of the incentives they create, rather than simply the goals they pursue. This means that conseq.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 16ff5ed | Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 1515078 | Talk about how various people have been "winners" in "the lottery of life" or have things that others don't have just because they "happen to have money" is part of the delegitimizing of property as a prelude to seizing it. Luck certainly plays a very large role in all our lives. But we need to be very clear about what that role is. Very few people just "happen" to have money. Typically, they have it because their fellow human beings have .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 46dc895 | What about you, Neville?" said Ron. "Well, my gran brought me up and she's a witch," said Neville, "but the family thought I was all-Muggle for ages. My Great Uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my guard and force some magic out of me -- he pushed me off the end of Blackpool pier once, I nearly drowned -- but nothing happened until I was eight. Great Uncle Algie came round for dinner, and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by t.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d7551a8 | First of all, Harry, I want to thank you," said Dumbledore, eyes twinkling again. "You must have shown me real loyalty down in the Chamber. Nothing but that could have called Fawkes to you." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| af31ba2 | And just look at these books!" said Hermione excitedly, running a finger along the spines of the large leather-bound tomes. "A Compendium of Common Curses and Their Counter-Actions . . . The Dark Arts Outsmarted . . . Self-Defensive Spellwork . . . wow . . ." She looked around at Harry, her face glowing, and he saw that the presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fb531c2 | Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser if he annoyed me. Used ter make him laugh... | hagrid | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8d70962 | Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to break down the door. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4082737 | Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 383630e | THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES. . . . BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES . . . AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT . . . AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES. . . . THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES . . . | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 62489e7 | When writing fantasy novels, one must be careful what one invents. For every benefit, there is usually a drawback. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 57c2be0 | Mr. Ollivander touched the lightning scar on Harry's forehead with a long, white finger. "I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it," he said softly. "Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands ... well, if I'd known what that wand was going out into the world to do." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d5f7ed3 | He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing... | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 562c131 | Club motto: "Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads." Holyhead" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1b63019 | Elderly witches and wizards still use the saying 'I'll take Cadogan's pony' to mean, 'I'll salvage the best I can from a tricky situation'. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 313a338 | NEWT: Now there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about. JACOB: Tell me - has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry? NEWT: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice. | life-lessons one-to-remember | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3e8a646 | The wand chooses the wizard, | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 03c96fd | We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. | E.M. Forster | ||
| b92df17 | They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas. | peas vegetables | E.M. Forster | |
| 0c87491 | He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love. | intimacy-self-sacrifice therapy transparency | E.M. Forster | |
| f91bf07 | There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 1170823 | And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms! | dystopia | E.M. Forster | |
| 75faba5 | A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood--a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved. | lucy-honeychurch rebel | E.M. Forster | |
| e652d05 | It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious - that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 0071e9a | He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we know--but come!" It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, "I'll come--I didn't know." "You can't help yourself now. You must come." "I don't want to help myself." "Come then." He did come. H.. | forster love lovers maurice | E.M. Forster |