Snitch Quotes

“Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice.
Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him.
"Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually.
"Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor."
Crabbe and Goyle sniggered.
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air…”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Anyway... no worries about the bird: it's like my dear old mum always says: 'don't chase the quaffle if you see the snitch.'"
Reg frowned. "But that doesn't make sense."
"Sure it does."
"But... a chaser chases the quaffle. A seeker chases the snitch... they're two different positions... a chaser isn't even allowed to catch the snitch. He'd be disqualified!"
James opened his mouth to explain but decided against it. "That's true, Cat. Very true. I'll have to tell mum next time I see her."
"I'm surprised you didn't catch that—being a Quidditch Captain."
"You won't tell anyone, will you?"
Reginald promised that he wouldn't.”
― Jewels5, The Life and Times

“There's not much money to be made in duck farming. That's OK, because The Whisper Factory is now hiring! Report your grandma for suspicious behavior and get PAID!”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I don’t want us to be something that only exists in the dark, in the cracks, in the places people don’t want to look or talk about.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“Even if he could never belong to me, I would always belong to him. Painfully, ruinously, irrevocably.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“Because this is what happens in the real Cinderella story. The prince has to marry a princess, and people like us? We have to find peace in the ashes.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“The Whisper Factory is now hiring! Report your grandma for suspicious behavior and get PAID!”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“One time, I'd let myself believe I could fall in love with a prince. I still haven't recovered from the cuts those glass slippers made when they shattered.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“I want to kiss you, Story. I want the whole fucking world to know you’re mine. I want it cast in stone.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“To confess?! But what if the priest snitched me to God?”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I knew then that Gray could fee my butterflies, because he seemed determined to rip their wings off anytime they fluttered.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“Maybe I've started rooting for you to fail.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“I can’t come up there,” I whispered. “I can’t do it. I can’t wake up in the morning and go back to being nothing.”
The thunderous roar of waves amplified the silence. I figured he had dropped the matter, and I let my vision blur in the glimmering crystals of his art deco chandelier above.
Then he spoke. “I can’t wake up tomorrow and not smell you in my sheets, Snitch.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“You’re born to be seen, and because of that, you hide your heart. I was born to be forgotten, and because of that, I wear my heart on my sleeve. I don’t think it’s working out so well for either of us.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“She wasn't just cleaning-she fucking belonged here. In my bed. In my veins.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“You’ve corrupted my soul completely.” He pulled back, forcing me to feel the earnestness in his soul. “I don’t feel without you.” He ran his nose up and down my neck, voice warbled, raw. “Let me say sorry to you. Let me say sorry to you over and over again until you say I’ve fixed it.”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“What kind of fucking torture is it to wait years to fuck, to wait until you’ve found someone who won’t rip you to shreds, to finally find that girl, and then not be able to have her?”
― Mary Catherine Gebhard, Stolen Soulmate

“a ring of jailhouse informants-- or 'snitches'--... allegedly received lenient sentences as well as food, drugs, sex and special privileges from detectives... It's not difficult to imahine why a prisoner-informant would lie about overhearing a confession when it means real material benefits... [and] prosecutors are often motivated to make those informants sound believable to a judge. Testimony from a single jailhouse informant is enough to convict a person for a charge as serious as murder... [Snitch] testimony [is] the leading cause of wrongful convictions in US capital cases."
-- Aaron Miguel Cantu”
― Maya Schenwar, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

“I finally think back to the movie I was watching last night. Wild Child. Suddenly, the solution appears clearly in my brain.”
― Lauren Price, Behind Frenemy Lines

“According to defense attorney, Bruce Cutler, Gravano misrepresented himself to FBI agents and prosecutors as a strong-willed, tough-as-nails gangster who had confronted Gotti when he had disagreed with his Mob policies. The lawyer recalled that in Gotti’s presence, 'Gravano was always subservient, even obsequious around John.'
And when the climactic test came, Sammy’s self-preservation was more important to him than saving his boss and dozens of his crime colleagues.”
― Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia