Quotes by J.K. Rowling

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didnt realize that love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”

“Snapes patronus was a doe, said Harry, the same as my mothers because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”

“Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you, said Dumbledore quietly.”

“Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.”

“Mad Eye Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: Not nice, he said calmly. Not pleasant. And theres no counter curse. Theres no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and hes sitting right in front of me.”

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

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

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?”

“As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.”

“He didnt realize that love as powerful as your mothers for you leaves its own mark.”

“Courage is the best gift than being timid.”

“Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”

“And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.”

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”

“She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.”

“Would it hurt to die?”

“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”

“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 hermaphrodites body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...”