Have you heard this before? Help with a quote...

[Noor]

I always like to leave my books alone to collect dust in a drawer (or folder on the computer) for a few months after I've finished writing them. That way when I go back it'll seem new and I'll be better able to judge if it makes sense/is any good. Anyway, I recently re-read one of my novels and I plan to release it soon and as I was reading I pulled a bunch of quotes I thought were good/nice sounding. The problem is one of these quotes is bugging me. I keep feeling like I heard it somewhere before (maybe in harry potter?)

"...he looked more like a gust of wind or a whirl of smoke than a boy."

It's a just a very brief part of a character description, but I wanted to check. Have any of you seen it, or something that sounds too similar to it, somewhere? Can you point me toward where (which book/chapter)?

Of course it could just be me remembering it from when I wrote it, and it is very short, but I don't want to take the risk of using this quote to advertise the novel and then have part of it turn out to be identical to some famous author's description... >.>

Let me know and thanks in advance!

[Christina]

It doesn't sound familiar to me and googling it brings up nothing, though it's quite interesting that there are several entries where the same words are used in a passage in a different order.

[M.L.]

It brings up thoughts of "The Golem and the Jinni." Not as an exact quote, the ephemeral nature. I like the sentence too.

[Noor]

Thanks for the replies and help.

Christina, that is interesting! Maybe that's why I kept thinking it was familiar.

Glad you like it, M.L. I haven't read that book, but maybe I should check it out! :)

If anyone else recognizes the sentence from somewhere please let me know!