I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution..."
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.