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“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Lying #Responsibility #Parent
“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Love #Inspirational #Dark
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Morning #Rain #Winter
“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Life #Inspiration #Abortion
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Change #Wise
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Life #Depression
“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Senior #Writing #Years
“Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Happiness #Book
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Giving Up #World #Chance
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Love #Death #Way
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Success #Graduation
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Relationship #Boyfriend #Husband
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Happiness #Inspiring #Philosophical
“Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Son #People #Groups
“If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Wise #Witty #Reading
“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.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Beauty #Wise
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Failure #People #Trying
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Humble #Magic #Opinion
“The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Adversity #Mean #Stronger
“If you donâ€™t like to read, you havenâ€™t found the right book.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspiring #Book #Reading
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Friendship #Courage
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Love #Life #Underestimate
“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Fighting #Evil #Black
“You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom,â€ Dumbledore said calmly. â€œMerely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit â€”â€ â€œThere is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!â€ snarled Voldemort. â€œYou are quite wrong,â€ said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. â€œIndeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness..”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Eye #Men #Matter
“Itâ€™s so difficult to describe depression to someone whoâ€™s never been there, because itâ€™s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But itâ€™s that cold absence of feelingâ€” that really hollowed-out feeling.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Sadness #Feelings #Cold
“Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel â€” Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Baby #Angel #Aunt
“I think itâ€™s the books that you read when youâ€™re young that live with you forever.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Book #Thinking #Forever
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Love #Silly #Inspire
“I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Writing #Want
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational #Funny #Believe

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