“What I love about Harry Potter is that unironic drive toward objective goodness.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“I think finishing the books, it’s definitely been a release. I feel more relaxed. I thought, I can come here now and crash and burn. What does it matter”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“It was a bereavement. It was huge. Although I knew it was coming, we all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you can’t prepare yourself for it. So even though I always knew it would be seven books, that was it, I knew how it was going to end,…”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“This may surprise people, but in many, many ways Hufflepuff is my favorite house.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“If you can’t handle me at my J.K. Rowling you don’t deserve me at my Joan Didion.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com