1,714 Quotes by J.K. Rowling

Harry tore open the envelope while Hedwig helped herself to some of Neville's cornflakes.

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

well," he said, trying to sound as though he found the whole thing a joke, "if you want to -- er -- what is it?" (He checked Percy's letter.) "Oh yeah -- 'sever ties' with me, I swear I won't get violent.""Give it back," said Ron, holding out his hand. He is --" Ron said jerkily, tearing Percy's letter in half, "the world's" -- he tore it into quarters -- "biggest" -- he tore it into eighths -- "git." He threw the pieces into the fire.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.