Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

by J.K. Rowling

you sometimes have to join forces with those you’d rather avoid.”

“Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!”

“The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that the others don’t have.”

“Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them.

the dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself . . . soulless and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.

Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!”

“The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive

“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.