It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE, FRSL (/ˈroʊlɪŋ/; born 31 July 1965), pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until she finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers: The Casual Vacancy (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015). Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. She is the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238M. The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £600 million, ranking her as the joint 197th richest person in the UK. Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editor
You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
The forest hides many secrets.
"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
On Christmas Eve, Harry went to bed looking forward to the next day, for the food and the fun.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.