“If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.”

“He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.”

“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all read...”

“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that...”

“Once upon a time for that is how all stories should begin there was a boy who lost his mother.”

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

“Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.”

“What I stand for is what I stand on.”

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

“If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?”

“Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.”

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to ...”

“Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.”

“They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me.”

“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”