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“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.”
―  Ken Thompson

“I think he’s trying to drown his sorrows,” Harry said, finding the petting movements to be rather therapeutic. “But sorrows are very good swimmers.”
― oliversnape, A Grim Old Cat

“He ate a hot dog from a vendor cart for lunch and had a three course French meal for dinner. He rather preferred the hot dog.”
― DisobedienceWriter, Time to Fix the Mistakes

“Not again,” Daphne muttered angrily when she came in for dinner one night. “How can Muggles listen to such dribble?”

“It’s ‘Joy to the World,’” Justin responded importantly. “How can that possibly be dribble?”

She scoffed at him. “Evidence shows that your Harry Potter figure—“

Harry gagged at her phrasing and nearly choked on the pumpkin juice he was drinking.

“As I was saying,” Daphne began again, “your Harry Potter figure was most likely born in March. Your scholars say so.”

Justin rolled his eyes.

“The only reason that your Christmas was placed at the end of December was because of pre-existing pagan holidays celebrating the darkest time of the year, when the pagan god is reborn having died at Samhain. Your god’s death and resurrection had been told hundreds of times before that in all notable pagan religions. And you stole our date and our customs—including evergreen trees and mistletoe.”

“I don’t think I like Jesus being called a Harry Potter figure,” Harry murmured to himself, finding the entire conversation suddenly frightening.

“I can’t believe you just said that,” Justin said to Daphne, who pointedly ignored him.

“Why not?” she questioned Harry. “He somehow survived death to rise again when he shouldn’t have and was born to save the world. He clearly is a prefiguration of the entire prophecy situation we currently have. Who knows? In two thousand years there might be a religion surrounding you.”

Harry paled just at that horrifying thought, and was glad that Octavian celebrated Yule. After this Christmas, he would try never to think about those parallels ever again.

“What about angels visiting the shepherds?” Justin asked Daphne defensively. “Or the three kings? I bet you don’t have those!”

“You really think you came up with the kings?” Daphne laughed. “Don’t get me started on the three magical kings. They’re not even human!”
― ExcentrykeMuse, Of Horcruxes and Kings

“Riddle raised a dark brow. “A muggle reference?”

“My father is obsessed.” [said Ron Weasley.]

“With muggles or their things?”

“Muggles. What they do and how they manage it and how they react to different obstacles. He thinks they’re fascinating.”

“Ah. Like a scientist might think an ant colony is very interesting to study.”

“Yeah.”

“Your father,” said Riddle, “is far creepier than I.”
― PseudonymousEntity, Very Bad Boys

“I’m meeting Bellatrix’ parents.” — “You sure you don’t want to stay here and fight Voldemort some more?”

Harry Potter and Edgar Bones”
― Lord umbrex, Harry Potter and the Turning of the Sun

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Or so I thought. My opinion forever changed the day I met a very peculiar man by the name of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”
― Amelia Littlewood, Sherlock Holmes & Elizabeth Bennet Mystery Collection Vol 1

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there
~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)”
― Mercedes Lackey

“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure.”
― Jane Brody

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kellogg's."

[Something in the Water? (blog post; January 9, 2012)]”
― Stacia Kane

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
― Robin Williams

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Memory of Blood

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“Coming from a country where mapmakers tend to exclude any landscape feature smaller than, say, Pike’s Peak, I am constantly impressed by the richness of detail on the OS 1:25,000 series. They include every wrinkle and divot of the landscape, every barn, milestone, wind pump and tumulus. They distinguish between sand pits and gravel pits and between power lines strung from pylons and power lines strung from poles. This one even included the stone seat on which I sat now. It astounds me to be able to look at a map and know to the square metre where my buttocks are deployed.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

“Now Harry,” she began, “Magic is in itself a form of religion, but there are powerful beings who can be considered as gods and goddesses. Herne the Hunter, Morrigan, Cernunnos, Epona are a few British deities just like Odin, Thor, Zeus, Hera, Isis, Osiris, etc. are deities of other times and countries. Even the more modern gods like the Christ, Buddha, Allah, etc. are powerful beings or representations of the ‘Uncaused Cause’ as the creator of all things is sometimes called.”
― Nigelcat1, Sorry About That Harry

“[…] Oh,” Snape said with an evil smile, “your father told me to give you something in private.” — “What's that?” Draco asked, brightening. — “Crucio!”
― DrT Lewis, A Fist Full of Galleons

“That doesn’t seem very traditional,” Harry said mockingly.

“A true understanding of tradition means that you deviate from tradition when necessary,” Malcolm said. “Tradition is inherited wisdom, not random, arbitrary laws.”
― kokopelli, By right of conquest

“[…] Auch erzählte er ihnen, daß [Lord Zabini] ab und zu einen Muggelleichnam dazu verwende, seinen Tod vorzutäuschen, um seine Frau dann unter einem anderen Namen zu heiraten. Er und sie würden es total lustig finden, daß sie dadurch von allen für eine Schwarze Witwe gehalten werde, da noch niemand […] ihr Spiel durchschaut habe. […]”
― Bill Weasley666

“Hermione’s not the only one willing to open a book, you know? It’s textbooks I don’t care for… hundred pages of twaddle for every useful bit.”

McGonagall replied archly, “That ‘twaddle’ represents a thousand years of intensive study and improvements in practice, Potter. Our people have deified the Hogwarts founders for far too long, and I ask that you reject that example. Rowena Ravenclaw, for all her greatness, could not have performed much of third-year transfiguration — even the tools for constructing spells at that level did not yet exist.”
― Mike [FP], Harry Potter and the Last Horcrux

“Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.”
― Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives