Life Quotes Quote by J.K. Rowling — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.”

“Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-”

“Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach.”

“In times of old when I was new”

“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 —”

“I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.”

“I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.”

“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”