Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

by J.K. Rowling

“What are we now, then, the House-Elf Liberation Front?

Dobby likes being free!”

“They isn’t my masters anymore, Winky!” said Dobby defiantly. “Dobby doesn’t care what they think anymore!”

facing the prospect of asking a girl to the ball, he thought he’d rather have another round with the dragon.

“Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ponder this: We’ve taken what you’ll sorely miss, An hour long you’ll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour — the prospect’s black, Too late, it’s gone, it won’t come back.”

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“To have so much money you don’t notice if a pocketful of Galleons goes missing.”

“Curiosity is not a sin,” he said. “But we should exercise caution with our curiosity . . . yes, indeed . . .”

You ask for forgiveness? I do not forgive. I do not forget.

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

“Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”