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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “By Gryffindor, the bravest were
    Prized far beyond the rest;
    For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
    Would always be the best;
    For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
    Most worthy of admission;
    And power-hungry Slytherin
    Loved those of great ambition.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #4
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #7
    Terri Windling
    “Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.”
    Terri Windling

  • #8
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
    "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “Give her hell from us, Peeves.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
    JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.
    "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?"
    "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?"
    "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Don't let the muggles get you down.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
    Teach us something please,
    Whether we be old and bald,
    Or young with scabby knees,
    Our heads could do with filling
    With some interesting stuff,
    For now they're bare and full of air,
    Dead flies and bits of fluff,
    So teach us something worth knowing,
    Bring us back what we've forgot,
    Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
    And learn until our brains all rot...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. ”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #28
    John Green
    “Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.”
    John Green

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

    [never tickle a sleeping dragon]”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Enter, stranger, but take heed
    Of what awaits the sin of greed,
    For those who take, but do not earn,
    Must pay most dearly in their turn,
    So if you seek beneath our floors
    A treasure that was never yours,
    Thief, you have been warned, beware
    Of finding more than treasure there.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone



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