The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
There is nothing magical about how you get from the middle of a book to the end of one.
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.
"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution..."
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
Socks are Dobby's favorite, favorite clothes, sir! I has seven now, sir. . . . But sir ...they has made a mistake in the shop, Harry Potter, they is giving you two the same!