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“Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“For a travel journalist I’m worryingly bad at geography.”
― Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

“Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It had taken all Harry’s willpower to uproot himself from the spot and run, leaving the eyeless dementors to glide amongst the Muggles who might not be able to see them, but would assuredly feel the despair they cast wherever they went.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Complete Collection

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“No matter who else is mourning, you’re in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you’re aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“I can’t imagine a world where my mother isn’t. Then”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“we loved reenacting what we saw. The Church Lady’s catchphrases were our catchphrases, and we repeated them until my mother said, exasperated: “Please stop saying ‘Isn’t that special?’ in that strange voice. It is annoying to me and to others.” At”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“She says that everyone creates a version of her life that she wishes were true and tries to believe.”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“I’m not really shy. I’m an introvert.” I went on to explain the difference—the fact that being around people didn’t make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“Maybe someday I would be happy. —”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“Grief is a mystery to be lived through, not a problem to be solved,”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“It’s Square Pegs,” Georgie said, “plus My So-Called Life, plus Arrested Development.” If Seth were here, he’d add, “Plus some show that people actually watched.” And”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Her mom had turned Georgie’s childhood bedroom into the pug trophy room as soon as she graduated from high school—which was irritating because Georgie didn’t actually move out of the house until she graduated from college.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“She’d used Heather’s shower, and Heather’s shampoo. And now she smelled like frosting.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Heather leaned into Georgie and sighed. “Sometimes I feel like her daughter. And sometimes I feel like the dog with the least ribbons.” Heather”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“A lot has happened since I said that.”

“You saw a double rainbow,” she said, “and now you believe in aliens.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“You could have died. Right there. In Utah.” “You make it sound like that’s worse than regular dying.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Alice, you’re not going to get cancer from the cell phone. Especially not from a few minutes on the cell phone.” “Meow.” Alice sighed. “It’s not that I don’t trust you, Mommy, but you’re not a nurse. Or a doctor. Or a scientist.” “A scientist!” Noomi said, giggling. “Scientists”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“So what would make you happy?” “Well, if I knew that, I’d do it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“I would marry Jell-O Instant Pudding.” Georgie”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“There’s no such thing as a wrong pizza,” Georgie said. “All pizzas are right from conception.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“God, she’d never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn’t want them? All that romance about snow and seasons … You shouldn’t have to make a special effort not to die every time you left your house. Everything”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“The night copy editors actually handled the papers, every edition, hot off the presses. They left gray fingerprints on their keyboards and desks. They reminded Lincoln of moles. Serious people with thick glasses and gray skin. That might just be the lighting, he thought. Maybe he wouldn’t recognize them in the sunshine. In full color. They”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“The worst thing about the Internet, as far as Greg’s bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz. And”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Lincoln worked Christmas Eve, then went out for dinner with a bunch of the copy editors. There was a casino across the river with a twenty-four-hour buffet. “With crab legs tonight,” Chuck said, “on account of Christ’s birth.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Jennifer to Beth>> I don’t know. Writing headlines, I guess. Reading the same stories over and over to make sure some idiot reporter didn’t use “they’re” when he should have used “their.” Changing “which”es to “that”s. Arguing with someone about sequence of tenses. <> What on earth is sequence of tenses? <> It’s top-secret copy editor stuff. <”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments