Joan DeArtemis

“Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them: Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“He didn’t see the owls swooping past in broad daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed open-mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive —no, looking at the sign; cats couldn’t read maps or signs.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their substantive content, not by the process of the narrative experience that is anticipated.”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form