“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“You’ll stay with me?’
Until the very end,’ said James.”

“How do you feel, Georgie?” whispered Mrs. Weasley.
George’s fingers groped for the side of his head.
“Saintlike,” he murmured.
“What’s wrong with him?” croaked Fred, looking terrified. “Is his mind affected?”
“Saintlike,” repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. “You see…I’m HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”

“Albus Severus,” Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, “you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”