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  • #1
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #2
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #3
    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    Wystan Hugh Auden

  • #4
    W.H. Auden
    “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
    W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

  • #5
    W.H. Auden
    “If equal affection cannot be,
    Let the more loving one be me.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #6
    W.H. Auden
    “In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #7
    W.H. Auden
    “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
    W.H. Auden
    tags: book

  • #8
    W.H. Auden
    “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #9
    W.H. Auden
    “I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?”
    W.H. Auden

  • #10
    W.H. Auden
    “Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say”
    W.H. Auden

  • #11
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
    Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #12
    Horatius
    “Carpe diem."

    (Odes: I.11)”
    Horace, The Odes of Horace

  • #13
    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    John Keats

  • #14
    W.B. Yeats
    “But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

    (Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
    W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

  • #15
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #16
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #17
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #18
    J.K. Rowling
    “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “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

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?"
    "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Has Ron saved a goal yet?” asked Hermione, peering over the top of Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms.
    “Well, he can do it if he doesn't think anyone’s watching him,” said Fred, rolling his eyes. “So all we have to do is ask the crowd to turn their backs and talk among themselves every time the Quaffle goes up his end on Saturday.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach.
    'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!'
    “You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!”
    She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?" said Malfoy. "And he’s supposed to be our teacher!"
    Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK!
    She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again.
    "Don’t you dare call Hagrid pathetic you foul—you evil—"
    "Hermione!" said Ron weakly and he tried to grab her hand as she swung it back.
    "Get off Ron!"
    Hermione pulled out her wand. Malfoy stepped backward. Crabbe and Goyle looked at him for instructions, thoroughly bewildered.
    "C’mon," Malfoy muttered, and in a moment, all three of them had disappeared into the passageway to the dungeons.
    "Hermione!" Ron said again, sounding both stunned and impressed.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?"
    "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—"
    "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—"
    "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #31
    J.K. Rowling
    “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, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban



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