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J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 13

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I DON'T CARE! Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! You do care, said Dumbledore. He

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Death, Pain, Moving

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

Heart, Ice, Chips

Source: www.spiegel.de

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

Fall, Want, Speak

Source: www.wbur.org

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

Magic, Found, Wands

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.

Children, Book, Writing

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.

Song, Past, Land

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.187, Hachette UK

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

Witty, Party, School

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.45, Hachette UK

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Emotional, Issues, Weapons

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.99, Hachette UK

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?

Stars, Night, Sky

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

Dark, Night, Light

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.15, Hachette UK

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Unique, Appreciate, Faces

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.73, Hachette UK

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

Simple, Comfort, Gestures

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.123, Hachette UK

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

Men, Potters, Yeah

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

Perfect, Maps, Knees

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

Father, Son, Black

The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

Dream, Reality, Wind

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Teenager, Giving, Facts

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Doe, Way, Now And Then

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

Heart, Rose, Alive

I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

Girl, Daughter, Mean

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

People, Trying, Want

Love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about - the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is "I love you". What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

Powerful, Love You, Love Is

OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!” Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing.

White, Funny Harry Potter, Ferrets

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.

Treats, Said, Hufflepuff

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