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J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 19

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There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Smart, Freedom Of Speech, Mouths

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

Encounters, Firsts, Facts

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

Girl, Writing, Sacrifice

If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.

Would Be, Spiders, Ems

J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

Books can be misleading...

Book, Mislead

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". www.imdb.com. 2002.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

Achievement, Acquisition, Lists

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

Book, People, Pudding

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Vacancy, Birth, Consciousness

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.18, Hachette UK

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

Air, Quiet, Sometimes

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.64, Hachette UK

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Mistake, Lying, Ninety Nine

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Half, Idiot, Andrew

You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.

Thinking, Sometimes, Knows

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

Gentleman, Looks, Hermione

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.

Forever, Way To Live, Stubborn

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

Flower, People, Might

Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?

Stars, Lying, Night

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

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

Fighting, Impossible, Tough

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

Names, People, Common Sense

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

Self, Blood, Hatred

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

Feelings, Might, Cry

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.69, Hachette UK

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

Two, People, Parent

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

Long, Different, Legs

J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK

First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

Lying, Kissing, Thinking

J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

Philosophy, Voice, Biographies

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

Moving, Body, Way

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