Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left -" "This is You-Know-Who we're talking about, right? Not you?" inquired Ron.
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He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway... DAVEN ANDERSON He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He o... HERBIE BRENNAN The best thing about him is that even if his down, he never shows it. After he was dropped (in 2002)... CHANDRAKANT PANDIT This is mad,” said Ron. “We’re the only ones left who haven’t got anyone — well, except Ne... J.K. ROWLING Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it ... JOHN FOWLES He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH I love you," he said, holding her close and running his fingers through her tangled hair as if he co... DEBORAH BLAKE It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away f... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther... 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JARED DUDLEY The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue.... SIDNEY SHELDON Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abo... J.K. ROWLING We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves," he used to say. That doesn't m... DAVID WROBLEWSKI So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, t... SARAH DESSEN I looked at him and the other two people whose names I’d just learned. “So . . . so this is home... KIERA CASS I paused to pat the truck’s hood gently in apology when someone put his hand on my shoulder. ... PATRICIA BRIGGS Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ ... J.K. ROWLING The idea filled a place inside him he hadn’t even realized was empty. Coming home to find Jordyn w... KAYLEA CROSS We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And ... J.K. ROWLING when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough<... RUPI KAUR I looked at him, into his warm gray eyes, and suddenly understood what he was trying to tell me. The... KODY KEPLINGER Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’ CIARáN WEST We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant eve... JENNY HAN Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surpr... GARTH NIX A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. FRANK A. CLARK I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and k... MICHAEL CRICHTON Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her ... RAINBOW ROWELL His story is extra special because if he was any place else, he probably wouldn't be on this earth. ... APRIL GODRA Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. MARCUS AURELIUS It was good to see Geoffrey finally go home, and he did it for the first time in nearly five years t... DEAN HAYES He missed you just as I did. He worried about you just as I worried. He looked for you. Tried to fin... SARAH MACLEAN He was footprints in the snow. Not all loves are meant to last. Some are meant to gr... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN He was just about to move when he felt her kiss his shoulder and his chest. She was curled up agains... SAMANTHA CHASE He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but t... TED HUGHES It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned him into a king. He ... KATHERINE PATERSON Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops"... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Py... DANIEL TAMMET And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to st... RICHELLE MEAD Sam, I know you’re upset over what happened with you and Drake,” Astrid began. “Upset?”... MICHAEL GRANT I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was tha... CASSANDRA CLARE The silky swirl of his tongue in the hollow of her navel sent fire licking through her veins. Hazily... LISA KLEYPAS It meant he was sure to see Linh Cinder again. 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You already know that.” He paused as he scooped some of my hair back, ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You know I love you right?” “I know,” he breathed, his arm tightening automatically... STEPHENIE MEYER Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would... JOHN FLANAGAN I drew him in my world; I write him in my lines, I want to be his girl, he was never ... LANG LEAV Oof!" Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on ... JENNIFER ECHOLS You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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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