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Crisi Esistenziale” - (Testo e Musica : Savio De Martino)

CHI SONO IO PER SENTIRMI UN D...
SAVIO DE MARTINO Vorrei poter fermare il tempo e vivere così per sempre"
Di solito questi riferimenti al suo im...
SUZANNE COLLINS Non c'è nessuno così grande come chi non cerca di realizzare niente.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA Giocavo a marito e moglie, a padre e figlia, a fare l'adulta, tutto era un gioco per me.
Ma era...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO Ho visto qualcosa di diverso in te! Sei intrappolata in questa guerra che non ti appartiene, c'è un...
B. TIANA LORENA Secondo l'esperienza di Archie, qualunque cosa dotata di memoria lunga mantiene i rancori, e non va ...
ZADIE SMITH Tutt'intorno a noi scorreva la città di Roma, splendida nella sua indifferenza, eternamente sicura ...
GARY SHTEYNGART Da bambino amavo ciò che si vede, da adolescente quello che si sente: da uomo, non amo più nulla.<...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Ombrosa non c’è più. Guardando il cielo sgombro, mi domando se è davvero esistita. Quel frastag...
ITALO CALVINO Il corpo è la casa del tempo, dentro di lui muoiono gli anni, e con loro noi stessi. Amavo davvero ...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE L’arte di vivere è l’arte di credere alle menzogne, il tremendo è che, non sapendo quid sit...
CESARE PAVESE A fine giornata ci sono poche persone intorno a voi che vogliono veramente vedervi sereni, felici e ...
C. JOYBELL C. Che bello! Silenzio, niente televisione, poche macchine per le strade, casa tiepida. È quasi come l...
MARIO RIGONI STERN Entrambi respirarono un po' di quell'affetto che ancora resisteva tra di loro, diluito
lungo ce...
PAOLO GIORDANO Era proprio la mia quell’immagine intravista in un lampo? Sono proprio così io, di fuori, quando ...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO - Fuggi, finché hai aria nei polmoni e sangue nelle vene e possiedi ancora la tua mente e la tua an...
NEIL GAIMAN «Non ero nessuno prima di conoscere te, e dopo che te ne sarai andato sarò di nuovo nessuno.»
JANE SEVILLE L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcu...
AMOS OZ E l’amore guardò il tempo e rise, perché sapeva di non averne bisogno. Finse di morire per un gi...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Osserva quella miserabile creatura. Quel Punto è un Essere come noi, ma confinato nel baratro adime...
EDWIN A. ABBOTT Non so se avrò tempo di scrivere altre lettere, perché forse sarò troppo impegnato a cercare a pa...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Soffrirai profondamente, fratello mio, quando scoprirai quanti nostri simili sono contagiati dall'od...
JOëL DICKER Una lezione ha un denominatore comune che ci lega l'uno all'altro come in una catena. In fondo alla ...
CECELIA AHERN Non chiamai Marion. Provai un senso di solitudine, in mancanza di parole migliori, ma in effetti è ...
DON DELILLO I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Non è un caso, infatti, che la grafica globalizzata tenda spesso a somigliarsi un po' tutta. Non si...
RICCARDO FALCINELLI Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioc...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Più la gente fa, più la società si sviluppa, più aumentano i problemi. La crescente devastazione...
MASANOBU FUKUOKA Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo ch...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ Non capisco come in Italia venga proibita la vendita di droga e armi e si lasci invece la libertà a...
CARL WILLIAM BROWN Gli uomini che hanno una tempestosa vita interiore e non cercano sfogo nei discorsi o nella scrittur...
CESARE PAVESE Gridavamo siamo angeli, possiamo lanciarci senza distruggerci, abbiamo le ali nei muscoli, siamo spa...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE Quasi avesse tenuto una breve rappresentazione teatrale, l'avvocato si mette una mano sul cuore e si...
JENNY ERPENBECK Il bassotto alzò il muso verso di lui, con lo sguardo dei cani quando non capiscono e non sanno che...
ITALO CALVINO Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE «Non sto cercando di cambiarti».
«Sì invece».
Lui si strofinò la faccia di nuovo. «...
JESSICA CLARE Con il termine Personal Branding si definisce il processo di creazione e gestione del proprio Brand,...
TOMMASO SORCHIOTTI We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.
RUPERT GRINT Odio gli indifferenti. Credo che vivere voglia dire essere partigiani. Chi vive veramente non può n...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI Josephine è uno e molti. È fatta di respiri, ricordi, paure. Sogni, anche. Il suo nome è sconosci...
MONICA SERRA - Fanciulla, non so se sei una dea o una mortale, se sei una dea certo sei Artemide con le tue ancel...
JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT ...notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES -Per favore. Come ti chiami?- domandò al gatto. -Senti, io mi chiamo Coraline. Okay?
Il gatto ...
NEIL GAIMAN Io non potevo vedermi vivere
LUIGI PIRANDELLO «Io voglio amarti di più» disse lei lentamente, timorosa di continuare. Si irrigidì e si scostò...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Per qualche motivo, tutto sommato, lo avrebbe di nuovo voluto neonato. Squittente e catastrofico, e ...
SILVANA DE MARI Vorrei, per essere proprio tranquillo, che tu non ti spaventassi o ti turbassi troppo qualunque cond...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI «Ho passato tutta la vita a far finta di essere qualcuno che non ero, simulando e nascondendo i mie...
RACHEL HAWKINS Riuscirò anch'io a realizzare i miei sogni? C'è un piccolo burrone tra la realtà e i sogni, il pr...
SARA DARDIKH io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare fors...
AMOS OZ E' un meccanismo difensivo, sai. Tu sei sicuro che uno che non ti ha mai visto ti considererebbe un ...
MORDECAI RICHLER In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando vendi ad un uomo un libro, non gli vendi 12 once di carta, un po' di inchiostro e della colla...
C. MORLEY Non riesco a uscire dalla mia stanza senza prima fissare il portatile di Bright Side, rimasto intatt...
KIM HOLDEN Noi siamo cinque fratelli. Abitiamo in città diverse, alcuni di noi stanno all'estero: e non ci scr...
NATALIA GINZBURG È come quando c’è chi crede di essere felice andando a vivere da qualche altra parte, ma poi imp...
NEIL GAIMAN Secondo gli stereotipi comuni, la grafica si occupa, in maniera artistica e creativa, di pubblicità...
RICCARDO FALCINELLI Ci sono più cose in cielo e in terra, Orazio, di quante non ne immagini la tua filosofia.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Amiamo i mondi di fantasia perché il mondo in cui viviamo non ci soddisfa completamente. Troviamo c...
ALESSIA ESSE I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN È che non mi piace dover vivere dentro un corpo. Se ha un senso. E penso che magari nel profondo so...
JOHN GREEN Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (H...
J.K. ROWLING Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC Ovviamente non si ha il diritto di dar da mangiare a Pop Corn, visto che si trova qui per dimagrire....
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Ma cosa devo fare allora?"
"Danzare" rispose "continuare a danzare, finché ci sarà musica. Ca...
HARUKI MURAKAMI E c'era davvero qualcosa che si avvicinava dal vialetto, in direzione della casa. Lo vedevo dal bino...
NEIL GAIMAN La “Crisi Esistenziale” di chi ama l’amore e ha il coraggio di amare.

Nell’epoca ...
SAVIO DE MARTINO Credevo che per Barney esistessi solo tu. Almeno questo è quello che dicono tutti. Senti, ambasciat...
MORDECAI RICHLER Come tutte le cose pure e dotate di una forza prorompente, le parole di Nietzsche potevano portare n...
MILA FOIS ...sentivo bensì un po' di vergogna in termini generali, perché quella si sente sempre, e in parti...
LUIGI MENEGHELLO «Neanche io so come comportarmi con te. Hai abbattuto le mie barriere e non mi aspettavo di lasciar...
ORNELLA CALCAGNILE Siamo o non siamo su un’invisibile trottolina, cui fa da ferza un fil di sole, su un granellino di...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Egli [Marx] ha posto il lavoro, il suo avvilimento ingiusto e la sua dignità profonda, al centro de...
ALBERT CAMUS We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS Lui continua a scusarsi e a elencarmi la sua lista di problemi, senza rendersi conto che il vero pro...
SARA DARDIKH Tumad aveva il comando della scorta, come accadeva la maggior parte dei giorni in cui Bashere non av...
ROBERT JORDAN Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL La Cadillac Eldorado Brougham del 1957 era l'incarnazione perfetta dell'esibizionismo, tra le macchi...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE «Improvvisamente ho capito che non c'è nessuna persona giusta. Non esiste né in terra né in ciel...
SáNDOR MáRAI - Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò.
- Non cambierò mai idea, - fec...
ITALO CALVINO Le parole sopravvivono ai sistemi perchè vivono di loro stesse: sono fuochi di memoria, segnali di ...
SALVATORE NATOLI Molti preferiscono tacere quando la vita fa più male, spesso le parole sono solo pietre inerti, ves...
STEFANSSON JON KALMAN [...] tutto mentiva, tutto puzzava, puzzava di menzogna, tutto simulava un significato di bontà e d...
HERMANN HESSE The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This make...
MIKE STOKLASA Ma la virilità si è tutta smammolata in coccolette; il coraggio svaporato in complimenti, e gli uo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE La forza dell’immagine e il potere dei social network possono cambiare la storia della comunicazio...
ALEX CORLAZZOLI Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Una storia cambia continuamente vestito. Una storia cresce e germoglia come un qualcosa di vivo! Que...
CORNELIA FUNKE La mamma somiglia molto a Bright Side. O forse era Bright Side che somigliava alla mamma. Anche lei,...
KIM HOLDEN Non si pone come regola, non si prescrive di essere casti; la castità è di per sé un ideale, o a ...
LEO TOLSTOY «Mancano venti miglia a Limerick» disse, mostrandosi molto interessata al percorso.
«So legg...
VIVIANA GIORGI Non posso più ascoltare tacendo. Devo parlarvi con i mezzi che ho a disposizione. Voi mi trafiggete...
JANE AUSTEN Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansi...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE [...] la schiavitù non è altro che il profitto di pochi del lavoro della massa. Perché la schiavi...
LEO TOLSTOY Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te...
ROALD DAHL Be’... – disse lei, rigirandosi compiaciuta sulla schiena. – Mi piace mangiare roba buona, bis...
RAYMOND CARVER Hedwig Marty: – Mantieni la tua libertà di coscienza e d’azione, è preziosa e noi ce la...
GIANI STUPARICH La solitudine non è mai con voi; è sempre senza di voi, e soltanto possibile con un estraneo attor...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'H...
CASSANDRA CLARE

More J.K. Rowling

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
J.K. ROWLING Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...
J.K. ROWLING The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of wh...
J.K. ROWLING As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies l...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her lef...
J.K. ROWLING Excellent,” said Lupin, looking up as Tonks and Harry entered.
“We’ve got about a minute...
J.K. ROWLING Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school frie...
J.K. ROWLING You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...
J.K. ROWLING And this is Nymphadora-"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder...
J.K. ROWLING You see!" said a strained voice. Tonks was glaring at Lupin. "She still wants to marry him, even tho...
J.K. ROWLING And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter
J.K. ROWLING And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!
J.K. ROWLING I will if you go out with me, Evans
J.K. ROWLING Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes.
“You’re less lik...
J.K. ROWLING Quelli che ci amano non ci lasciano mai veramente.
J.K. ROWLING My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp...
J.K. ROWLING Then you should have died!" Roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have do...
J.K. ROWLING I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thou...
J.K. ROWLING Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously th...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!”

A bearlike black dog had appeared...
J.K. ROWLING Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
J.K. ROWLING Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?
J.K. ROWLING You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .
J.K. ROWLING But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...
J.K. ROWLING He's not a child!" said Sirius impatiently.

"He's not an adult either!" said Mrs. Weasley...
J.K. ROWLING You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
J.K. ROWLING You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!
J.K. ROWLING He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
J.K. ROWLING Remus Lupin: I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole.
Mr. Weasley: B...
J.K. ROWLING What you fear most of all is-fear.
J.K. ROWLING I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and ...
J.K. ROWLING Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been...
J.K. ROWLING Loony, Loopy Lupin.
J.K. ROWLING Harry -- yer a wizard.
J.K. ROWLING Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many peop...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as...
J.K. ROWLING First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
J.K. ROWLING Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, g...
J.K. ROWLING thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing . . . maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s i...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we’re trying to keep them alive,” said Malfoy sarcastically. “Wh...
J.K. ROWLING Now, Ron, the Sorting’s much more important than food,” said Nearly Headless Nick as “Madley, ...
J.K. ROWLING Bagman swore loudly. ‘Damn them!’ he said, looking quite distracted,
J.K. ROWLING Malfoy got Hermione!” Ron said. “Look!” He forced Hermione to show Snape her teeth — she was...
J.K. ROWLING I might be seeing you all sooner than you think,” said Charlie, grinning, as he hugged Ginny good-...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed. I’m not sayin’ there isn’t the odd elf who’d tak...
J.K. ROWLING Right little ray of sunshine, aren’t you?” said Ron. “You and Professor Trelawney should get t...
J.K. ROWLING He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, star...
J.K. ROWLING Ron’s voice now joined the others’. “What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “O...
J.K. ROWLING sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic.
J.K. ROWLING Bill and Charlie both had their wands out, and were making two battered old tables fly high above th...
J.K. ROWLING Sirius shook his head and said, “She’s got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If y...
J.K. ROWLING The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with pe...
J.K. ROWLING What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry...
J.K. ROWLING Don’t you?” said Moody quietly. “It’s very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter’s name in...
J.K. ROWLING He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, ...
J.K. ROWLING Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?’ Dumbledore asked calmly.
J.K. ROWLING Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief.
J.K. ROWLING Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!
J.K. ROWLING Lo, Fawkes,’ said Harry quietly. He stroked the phoenix’s beautiful scarlet and gold plumage. Fa...
J.K. ROWLING Oh,’ said Mr Crouch, looking over at Percy in mild surprise. ‘Yes – thank you, Weatherby.’ F...
J.K. ROWLING Good one,” said Ron, copying it down. “Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don’t you...
J.K. ROWLING Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?"

At this, Myrtle's eyes filled...
J.K. ROWLING I asked you,” said Moody quietly, “whether he forgave the scum who never even went to look for h...
J.K. ROWLING It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now … nine ...
J.K. ROWLING Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
J.K. ROWLING giants. They can’t all be horrible. . . . It’s the same sort of prejudice that people have to...
J.K. ROWLING Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?” he asked calmly.
J.K. ROWLING A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go...
J.K. ROWLING He wanted to end it on his terms, that’s all. . . .
J.K. ROWLING Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive wi...
J.K. ROWLING They sat down at the Gryffindor table and helped themselves to lamb chops and potatoes. Hermione beg...
J.K. ROWLING Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with ...
J.K. ROWLING Uncle Vernon’s face worked furiously. The idea of being taught consideration by a man who had just...
J.K. ROWLING I like a healthy breeze ’round my privates, thanks.
J.K. ROWLING Moody limped around the table and bent down; Harry thought he was reading the S.P.E.W. notebook, unt...
J.K. ROWLING Hagrid was wearing his best (and very horrible) hairy brown suit, plus a checked yellow-and-orange t...
J.K. ROWLING Well, they’re okay!” said Ron angrily, looking at Harry’s robes. “Why couldn’t I have some...
J.K. ROWLING Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret …
J.K. ROWLING Aaah, ’at’s be’er,’ said Ron, with his mouth full of mashed potato.
J.K. ROWLING Harry scanned the table more carefully. Tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was sitt...
J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them. “Wangoballwime?” “Sorry?...
J.K. ROWLING Listen,” said Harry firmly. “If you don’t take it, I’m throwing it down the drain. I don’t...
J.K. ROWLING It’s got to be a pretty boring life, hasn’t it, being a hat?
J.K. ROWLING You know, house-elves get a very raw deal!” said Hermione indignantly. “It’s slavery, that’s...
J.K. ROWLING He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out O...
J.K. ROWLING There was no hope . . . no help to be had. And as he heard Voldemort draw nearer still, he knew o...
J.K. ROWLING That woman’s got it in for the Ministry of Magic!” said Percy furiously. “Last week she was sa...
J.K. ROWLING You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, hi...
J.K. ROWLING I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, ...
J.K. ROWLING E' strano, ma quando si ha paura di qualcosa, e si darebbe tutto per rallentare il tempo, quest'ulti...
J.K. ROWLING Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry.
J.K. ROWLING But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve," he assured Padma Patil,... [Ron revising the story in the 2n...
J.K. ROWLING A week ago, Harry would have said finding a partner for a dance would be a cinch compared to taking ...
J.K. ROWLING Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution with our curiosity . . . ye...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
"Find my what?"
"—and take ...
J.K. ROWLING Well, if they’re any bigger than this lot, even Hagrid won’t be able to handle them,” said Har...
J.K. ROWLING Not going to have a very good month, are you?” she said sardonically as Crookshanks curled up in h...
J.K. ROWLING I haven’t got a clue what this lot’s supposed to mean,” he said, staring down at a long list o...
J.K. ROWLING You all righ'?"
"Yeah,"
"No yeh're not... 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be.
J.K. ROWLING Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since h...
J.K. ROWLING Not a week has passed since I became headmaster of this school when I haven’t had at least one owl...
J.K. ROWLING That’s not the song it sang when it Sorted us,” said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. �...
J.K. ROWLING Death,
J.K. ROWLING Oh it was my pleasure, dears,” said Mrs. Weasley. “I’d invite you for Christmas, but … well,...
J.K. ROWLING He speaks over two hundred! Mermish and Gobbledegook and Troll …” “Anyone can speak Troll,” ...
J.K. ROWLING Acıyı bir süreliğine uyuşturmak, sonunda onu hissettiğinde daha da büyük acı çekmene yol a...
J.K. ROWLING Ah, this is your cousin, is it, Harry?” said Mr. Weasley, taking another brave stab at making conv...
J.K. ROWLING The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. It is possible that some of your parents wi...
J.K. ROWLING Thought I’d send this with Pig anyway. Harry stared at the word “Pig,” then looked up at the t...
J.K. ROWLING What’s that?” said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood besid...
J.K. ROWLING The school nurse had seen what Aunt Petunia’s eyes — so sharp when it came to spotting fingerpri...
J.K. ROWLING I will settle, in the short term,” said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, “for...
J.K. ROWLING if you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very l...
J.K. ROWLING Mrs. Weasley glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner. Harry liked this clock. It was complete...
J.K. ROWLING It’s all in Hogwarts, A History. Though, of course, that book’s not entirely reliable. A Revised...
J.K. ROWLING So, Harry,' said Dumbledore quietly. "Before you got lost in my thoughts, you wanted to tell me some...
J.K. ROWLING He will stay, Minerva, because he needs to understand,’ said Dumbledore curtly. ‘Understanding i...
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry,' said Dumbledore, twiddling ...
J.K. ROWLING Cedric Diggory was an extremely handsome boy of around seventeen. He was Captain and Seeker of the H...
J.K. ROWLING The truth is generally preferable to lies...
J.K. ROWLING Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to b...
J.K. ROWLING If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we’ll come and get you at five o’clo...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up, Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear...
J.K. ROWLING Kill the spare.

-Voldemort
J.K. ROWLING What would come, would come...and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like — some...
J.K. ROWLING Who’s avoiding you?” said Ron, sitting down next to them. “Wish you would,” said Fred, looki...
J.K. ROWLING We’ve been hearing explosions out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry -
I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of st...
J.K. ROWLING He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to him or hit him, both seemed quite appealing...
J.K. ROWLING But I think Durmstrang must be somewhere in the far north," said Hermione thoughtfully. "Somewhere v...
J.K. ROWLING Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.
J.K. ROWLING So...you lot got dates for the ball yet?"
"Nope," said Ron.
"Well, you'd better hurry up m...
J.K. ROWLING Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry took a deep, steadying breath and then said, “Okay, I can’t see the World Cup. Can I go no...
J.K. ROWLING A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poison...
J.K. ROWLING Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"

"What's the point?" said Ron. "Yo...
J.K. ROWLING He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip...
J.K. ROWLING Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is ri...
J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
J.K. ROWLING But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
J.K. ROWLING Giggling should be made illegal.
J.K. ROWLING OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble st...
J.K. ROWLING There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.
J.K. ROWLING Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I me...
J.K. ROWLING The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate ...
J.K. ROWLING Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hint...
J.K. ROWLING Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
J.K. ROWLING Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."

"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
J.K. ROWLING