“They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.”

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”

“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”

“The hated have no reason to love.”

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”

“She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, Billy Slick doesnt sound much like a goblin name? Billy made a face. Too right! Granny calls me Of t...”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you...”

“Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.”