Quotes by J.K. Rowling

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

It doesnt matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...

Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.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; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either weve got Fudge, pretending everythings lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or weve got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend youve got The Chosen One working for you!

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Weve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. Thats who we really are.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixtags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow.Ive got to go back, havent I?That is up to you.Ive got a choice?Oh yes. Dumbledore smiled at him. We are in Kings Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…lets say…board a train.And where would it take me?On, said Dumbledore simply.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

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.

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?What of it?Well, how can that be real?Prove that it is not, said Xenophilius.Hermione looked out

Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!

Arent you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?Whats the point? said Ron. You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

Wherever I am, if Ive got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

Theres always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.