I haven't done anything--yet.

I love you, Clary, he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. More than I ever-- He broke off. God. More than...

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad? asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding.The Ministry's providing a couple of cars, said Mr. Weasley.Everyone looked up at him.Why? said Percy c...

Human beings have a deeply ingrained habit of passivity, which is strengthened by the relatively long period that we spend under the control of parents and schoolmasters. Moments of intensity are also...

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James.No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, said Mrs. Cadwallader.

He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game.

Her enormous eyes were staring straight into his silver ones. He couldn’t look away, couldn’t let go of her hand. He couldn’t have moved if his life depended on it. He was lost in those blue-violet ey...

Her name is Brienne, Jaime said. Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You still maiden, I hope?Her broad homely face turned red. Yes.Oh, good, Jaime said. I only rescue maidens.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehen...

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since...

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, 'Wow, we're identical!''I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking,' said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

Don’t pack your bags just yet, stay awhile,Don't try to run away to higher ground,You're in my twisted clouds of sad misfortune,And you are such an entertaining crowd!(I’ve never had such cheerful toy...

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same perso...

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions dro...

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.