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At that point where I'm dying to know what happens next, but I MUST get some work done.

He better not be doing what I think he's doing......

"Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."

Reading about vampires but dreaming about being chased by dragons + dinosaurs every night lol

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"

This is making me want to reread Macbeth next lol

"It is not violence that best overcomes hate - nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury."

"The ghosts don't change Scrooge into someone else; they remind him that he used to be someone else. He was once someone who felt other than the way he feels now, and those earlier people still exist in him. The ghosts, we might say, switch those former people back on."

This is really a fantastic book

Noah's favorite character so far is Neville :')

“I shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can’t bend the first-year rule. Heaven knows, we need a better team than last year. Flattened in that last match by Slytherin, I couldn’t look Severus Snape in the face for weeks….”

The first glimpse at how much we’ll end up loving McGonagall

“We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot. We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner in which they unfold, the way one part interacts with another, the instantaneous, felt, juxtaposition of elements.”

“These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. That’s a brave for and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him.”

Caliban is hilarious

“Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember…. I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter…. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things—terrible, yes, but great.”

“There was given to me a certainty that this, at last, was my real voice.
There was silence in the dark assembly long enough for me to have read my book out yet again. At last the judge spoke.
‘Are you answered?’ he said.
‘Yes,’ said I.”

CHILLS

“God blessed animals, humans, and then…a day?

What does that mean?

It means that the Sabbath—just like an animal or a human being—has the life-giving capacity to procreate. To fill the world up with more life.”