My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

People often brag about being “hot-tempered” or “fiery” when a more accurate description would be: “I stopped developing emotionally when I was a small child and therefore never learned to control my tantrums.

Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione.