Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

by J.K. Rowling

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!”

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan were tickling the tentacles of a giant squid, which was basking in the warm shallows.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.