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“But as he sprinted toward the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back. “There’s nothing you can do, Harry —” “Get him, save him, he’s only just gone through!” “It’s too late, Harry —” “We can still reach him —” Harry struggled hard and viciously, but Lupin would not let go. . . . “There’s nothing you can do, Harry . . . nothing. . . . He’s gone.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. .”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Look, I had five years of almost constant touring in Sideways, fans screaming every night that they loved me, opening the hotel curtains in the morning to see them all still out there with handmade banners with hearts all over them. But I woke up one morning and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I was exhausted, couldn’t sleep, was continually having panic attacks. Never saw my family. Didn’t have any friends apart from the other guys in the band. So I quit and sacked my management.”
― Ellery Lloyd, The Club

“Laura, who had intruded into my sacred space and now made herself at home there.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice