FastSaying

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box.

The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.


J.K. Rowling

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachmen...
RACHEL THOMPSON She would not break.

And someday… someday,even if it took her until her last breath, sh...
SARAH J. MAAS Alex thrust her hand and half her arm into the labyrinth of light.
Her stare blanked, and in t...
G.S. JENNSEN MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devot...
GIORGE LEEDY Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't ju...
C.C. HUNTER you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR Mia stayed where she was, distrust plain in her eyes.
"I've got tea," Mercurio sighed. "And cak...
JAY KRISTOFF I watched her, waiting.
She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes wa...
STEPHENIE MEYER She kills her words, but somehow the feeling survives. And no matter where she buries them, he alway...
SEEKEROHAN ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr...
PAUL HOFFMAN Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe...
BETH REVIS The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashe...
AVIJEET DAS She clambered to the shoreline. Numb and shaken, she began to dress. It wasn’t easy as she fumbled...
JEAN M. GRANT She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES Her hands brushed Shane's, and he let go of the cards and took hold.

And then somehow she...
RACHEL CAINE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.

....
PETER CAREY How did I love her?
Let me count the ways.
The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s...
LAUREN OLIVER When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, wh...
JOAN GOULD [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she was...
TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and ...
AKSHAY VASU But she had nothing. She had forbidden music. Grating her fingers in the bark, she damned the audien...
VIRGINIA WOOLF She stared into his eyes and announced, “A good-bye kiss.”
It was at that Raid stopped dead...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Is this seat taken?"
The deep, gravelly voice jolted Noelle from her blood-thirsty thoughts. W...
ELLE KENNEDY Something was in her mouth. Sami's tongue slid along the edges of something plastic. Flat, low ridge...
SUZANNE FERRELL Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she sa...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c...
LISA ZARAN Peter..."
He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee....
ANN BRASHARES And she arose from her deathbed in a gossamer gown, with eyes the color of starlight and hair as bla...
YASMINE GALENORN With fireflies in her eyes
She blew all her words into his mouth with a stroke of a poignant Ki...
ANKITMISHRA She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favor...
GARY SHTEYNGART Morfyd’s care.
As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s...
G.A. AIKEN She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .

And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She sto...
ANN BRASHARES As she came up to the arch Elizabeth saw with a start that it was written on. She went closer. She p...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
H...
HENRY ROLLINS She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her h...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When he finally broke off the kiss and moved his lips to her neck, then her breast again, sucking he...
BONNIE DEE I love you, Jamie,” I said again, but this time she wasn’t frightened. Instead our eyes met acro...
NICHOLAS SPARKS He started to pull away again but she called his name so he stopped.
“Yeah?”
“Before...
KRISTEN ASHLEY She sat on the little iron garden seat in the clearing at the top and looked down at the strange gar...
KATE MORTON One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.”

SARAH J. MAAS It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were.
Along with he...
SARAH-KATE LYNCH A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S...
METTE IVIE HARRISON Her heart pounded as the door lifted and Hunter got out dressed in faded jeans, a gray and black v-n...
SHERRILYN KENYON Silvia frowned, then she suddenly shouted. 'Mark and Gladson, get back to your seats!'

A ...
DEEPIKA KUMAARAGURU He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down.
...
BARBARA BROWNING Here she is,” her mum said, cooing at the baby, “my special girl.”
“Oh, cheers,” Valk...
DEREK LANDY Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.

She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppi...
J.R. WARD The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"

A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE So now the sky was falling.
Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again.
That s...
MARY CONNEALY After a steadying breath, Aislinn turned to Keenan. "I'm sure you can figure out lunch without help....
MELISSA MARR All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him....
BONNIE DEE There was so much tree gum in her hair from where he dragged her through the woods. She told me she ...
LARONDA BULLARD I love you," he said.

She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "...
RAINBOW ROWELL Boney freckled knees pressed into bits of bark and stone, refusing to feel any more pain.
Her f...
KIM BONGIORNO Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s...
CASSANDRA CLARE She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

LANG LEAV Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them....
LISA KLEYPAS The little group before her finally moved on and Sarah took its place, standing before Tom like he w...
BONNIE DEE In her fantastic mood she stretched her soft, clasped hands upward toward the moon.

'Swe...
BARRY PAIN The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.

Not just wanted, but...
JAMES ROBERTSON I need to pull away from this - She gestured between them languidly - "because When I'm with you, I ...
LOUISA EDWARDS He reached over and took Taylor’s hand. She did not pull her hand away.
He moved his hand up ...
MICHAEL GRANT From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE You truly are the most astonishingly beautiful hobbit I’ve ever seen,” he said, and Tamsyn froze...
ERICA DAKIN I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA She could feel the pressure from his hand on the back of her head as he forced her head down to take...
BETH ASHWORTH Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruined
purse. She...
ABIGAIL ROUX She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?”
Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fer...
MARISSA MEYER Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON But, after one quick trace of his tongue between her lips, he abruptly pulled away and stepped back ...
BONNIE DEE She turned the key, never taking her eyes from
him,
NICHOLAS SPARKS Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY What makes more sense in today's world?
Thinking about future, she ruined her present?
Or<...
JAPNEET KAUR A footman knocked at the door, the sound echoing through the entrance hall.
The sisters looked...
LISA KLEYPAS Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
And then,...
JULIA QUINN If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this."
She sh...
JAIME RUSH There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN How you doing, Helena?" she asked quietly.

"Not so good, Alley." The wounded trooper's vo...
DAVID WEBER Inside the church, the bondsmaids were walking slowly down the aisle,
with the little petal gir...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless...
NIKKI ROWE What do you want to show me?"

"Nothing, really. I just want to be alone with you for a mi...
RAINBOW ROWELL I saw her, once.

“She passed through our village, through fields littered with dead sol...
MARIE LU he said, ''but in her face and eyes you can see what the character she is portraying is wearing, whe...
MARIA CALLAS COMPLETELY.
Utterly.
Frozen.
My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin...
COLLEEN HOOVER Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for e...
PABLO NERUDA She tilted her head, looking back down at Del’s notes as she absently tore the crust off her pizza...
PRISCILLA GLENN She's still struggling physically, ... She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to p...
JESSE JACKSON Hold on to me!” Tedros yelled, hacking briars with his training sword.Dazed, Agatha clung to his c...
SOMAN CHAINANI For the Wife Beater's Wife

With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE

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