There is nothing magical about how you get from the middle of a book to the end of one.
"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with caution..."
"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
So many books, so little time.
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.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.