Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.”

— J.K. Rowling

102. “Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you’ve a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.”

— J.K. Rowling

103. “Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”

— J.K. Rowling

104. “Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.”

— J.K. Rowling

105. “No, I’m fine,? said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.”

— J.K. Rowling

106. “If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”

— J.K. Rowling

107. “And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.”

— J.K. Rowling

108. “Whatever house I’m in, I hope she’s not in it.”

— J.K. Rowling

109. “Mischief Managed.”

— J.K. Rowling

110. “Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!”

— J.K. Rowling

111. “Great, tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”

— J.K. Rowling

112. “I’m going to keep going until I succeed – or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.”

— J.K. Rowling

113. “Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.”

— J.K. Rowling

114. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— J.K. Rowling

115. “The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.”

— J.K. Rowling

116. “Don’t be stupid, it’s a flying house!”

— J.K. Rowling

117. “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”

— J.K. Rowling

118. “Death comes for us all in the end.”

— J.K. Rowling

119. “Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!”

— J.K. Rowling

120. “Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don’t you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.”

— J.K. Rowling

121. “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

— J.K. Rowling

122. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

— J.K. Rowling

123. “You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!”

— J.K. Rowling

124. “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

— J.K. Rowling

125. “The ones that love us never really leave us – Sirius Black.”

— J.K. Rowling

126. “We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.”

— J.K. Rowling

127. “Don’t let the muggles get you down”.”

— J.K. Rowling

128. “Eat, you’ll feel better.” – Remus Lupin.”

— J.K. Rowling

129. “All was well.”

— J.K. Rowling

130. “Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.”

— J.K. Rowling

131. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

— J.K. Rowling

132. “When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.”

— J.K. Rowling

133. “Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.”

— J.K. Rowling

134. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.”

— J.K. Rowling

135. “What is life without a little risk?”

— J.K. Rowling

136. “Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.”

— J.K. Rowling

137. “Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”

— J.K. Rowling

138. “Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?”

— J.K. Rowling

139. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”

— J.K. Rowling

140. “The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.”

— J.K. Rowling

141. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

— J.K. Rowling

142. “Oh, HONESTLY, don’t you two read?”

— J.K. Rowling

143. “If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.”

— J.K. Rowling

144. “I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

— J.K. Rowling

145. “I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.”

— J.K. Rowling

146. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

147. “Destination. Determination. Deliberation.”

— J.K. Rowling

148. “From now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell ‘Die, Ron, Die,’ I’m chucking them in the bin where they belong.”

— J.K. Rowling

149. “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”

— J.K. Rowling

150. “As our listeners will know, unless they’ve taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who’s strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.”

— J.K. Rowling