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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I was thinking of love,' I replied in a tone of reproach, 'and here you are talking to me again—forever—about torture!'
'Doubtless! since it's the same thing—”
― Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden

“You don’t think anything that Skeeter cow — sorry, Professor,' he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. 'I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry,' said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Don't talk to me."
"Why not?"
"Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“What else do you do there except lie—lie to yourself and others, lie about everything you recognize in your heart to be true? You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
― Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden

“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“I would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle purchasers that the amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you.To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Interestingly, Muggles were once fully aware of the existence of the Diricawl, though they knew it by the name of ‘dodo’. Unaware that the Diricawl could vanish at will, Muggles believe they have hunted the species to extinction.”
― Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Death comes for us all in the end.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“The three witches and the knight set off down the hill together, arm in arm, and all four led long and happy lives, and none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain's waters carried no enchantment at all.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair. It was with some difficulty, I must own, that I persuaded Madam Pince to part with one of her books so that it might be copied for wider consumption. Indeed, when I told her it was to be made available to Muggles, she was rendered temporarily speechless and neither moved nor blinked for several minutes. When she came to herself she was thoughtful enough to ask whether I had taken leave of my senses. I was pleased to reassure her on that point and went on to explain why I had taken this unprecedented decision.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“She suggested several alternatives, such as telling the people from Comic Relief and Lumos that the library had burned down, or simply pretending that I had dropped dead without leaving instructions. When I told her that on the whole I preferred my original plan, she reluctantly agreed to hand over the book, though at the point when it came to let go of it, her nerve failed her and I was forced to prise her fingers individually from the spine.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“By buying this book-and I would advise you to buy it, because if you read it for too long with out handing over money you will find yourself the object of a Thief's Curse- you too will be contributing to this magical mission.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Although I have removed the usual library-book spells from this volume, I cannot promise that every trace has gone. Madam Pince has been known to add unusual jinxes to the books in her care. I myself doodled absent-mindedly on a copy of Theories of Transubstantial Transfiguration last year and next moment found the book beating me fiercely around the head.”
― Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“Please be careful how you treat this book. Do not rip out the pages. Do not drop it in the bath. I cannot promise that Madam Pince will not swoop down on you, wherever you are, and demand a heavy fine.”
― Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“All that remains is for me to thank you for supporting Comic Relief and to beg Muggles not to try Quidditch at home; it is, of course, an entirely fictional sport and nobody really plays it. May I also take this opportunity to wish Puddlemere United the best of luck next season.”
― Albus Dumbledore J.K. Rowling

“Guthrie Lochrin, a Scottish wizard writing in 1107, spoke of the 'splinter-filled buttocks and bulging piles' he suffered after a short broom ride from Montrose to Arbroath.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Oh, the thrill of the chase as I soar through the air With the Snitch up ahead and the wind in my hair As I draw ever closer, the crowd gives a shout But then comes a Bludger and I am knocked out.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“While there have been no proven referee slayings since, there have been several incidences of broom-tampering over the centuries, the most dangerous being the transformation of the referee’s broom into a Portkey, so that he or she is whisked away from the match halfway through and turns up months later in the Sahara Desert.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The Harpies’ defeat of the Heidelberg Harriers in 1953 is widely agreed to have been one of the finest Quidditch games ever seen. Fought over a seven-day period, the game was brought to an end by a spectacular Snitch capture by the Harpy Seeker Glynnis Griffiths. The Harriers’ Captain Rudolf Brand famously dismounted from his broom at the end of the match and proposed marriage to his opposite number, Gwendolyn Morgan, who concussed him with her Cleansweep Five.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“the transfiguration of a Chaser into a polecat, the attempted decapitation of a Keeper with a broadsword, and the release, from under the robes of the Transylvanian Captain, of a hundred blood-sucking vampire bats.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The club motto was changed in 1972 from “We shall conquer” to “Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.” Falmouth”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone