"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible."
— Angie Sage (Queste)

"I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it."
— Angie Sage

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
— Edward Abbey

""Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient."
(Artemis Fowl)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"Good. Illegal is always faster. (Butler, Artemis Fowl's bodygaurd)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception)

"Trust me. I'm a genius."
— -Artemis Fowl

"Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told."
— Eoin Colfer (through Com. Root (Artemis Fowl, Book 3))

"Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
--Artemis Fowl"
— Eoin Colfer (The Artemis Fowl Files)

"Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do."
— Jaida Jones

"I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry,"because I'd already done it...does that make sense?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"I couldn't care more about Harry Potter if Hogwarts was my alma mater. Accio Deathly Hallows."
— J.K. Rowling

"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.

'After all this time?'

'Always,' said Snape."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"'Ginny listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.'
'It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?'
'It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do thigs alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He'salready used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you.'
'What if I don't care?'
'I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault...'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to pick one that fights back."
— Jk Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione. "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I-WANT-TO-TALK-TO-HARRY-POTTER!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"It is our choices that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?"
"Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?"
"Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..."
"I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough."
— J.K, Rowling

"'You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!'

'What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Uncle Vernon: What were you doing under our window, boy?
Harry Potter: Listening to the news.
Uncle Vernon: Listening to the news! Again?
Harry: Well, it changes every day, you see."
— Harry and Uncle Vernon

"'Seventeen, eh!' said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.
'Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?'
'Vaguely,' said Harry, grinning up at him. 'Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?'
'I forge’ the details,' Hagrid chortled."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Some are born great, others acheive greatness.

- Albus Dumbledore"
— J. K. Rowling

"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"There is no good and evil; only power and those too weak to see it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"'He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.'

'How very rude of him.'

'I told him I was.'

Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.

'I am very touched Harry.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter.
Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart.
Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then?
Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione.
Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead.
Ron: Dungbombs rule."
— J.K. Rowling (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!"
"Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!"
"Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do."
"Oh, really?"
"Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of
Dobby's hats."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with news...check if I'm happy..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"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."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"It unscrews the other way."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones."
"You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"The only way out is through."
— J.K. Rowling

"Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?"
"Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"We'll be there Harry," said Ron
"What?"
"At your Aunt's and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going."
"No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone.
"You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)