And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me, said Harry sarcastically. We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
And anyway, life's too short....
It's real for us
Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy.
After All This Time? Always" - Snape
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living (...).
Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand.
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of...
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity...
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feelin...
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
¡Yo! -exclamó Hermione-. ¡Libros! ¡Inteligencia! Hay cosas mucho más importantes, amistad, y valentía y... ¡Oh, Harry, ten cuidado!
It’s really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course.
But the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.