– Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone –
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
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“Oh, HONESTLY, don’t you two read?”
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“The trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
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“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
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“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
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“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
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“Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.”
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets –
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
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“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
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“When in doubt, go to the library.”
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“Why spiders? Why couldn’t it be “follow the butterflies?”
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“Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.”
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“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
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“You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban –
“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
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“What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise…”
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“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
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“You sometimes have to join forces with those you’d rather avoid.”
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”
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“Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.”
– Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire –
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
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“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
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“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
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“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
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“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”
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“Curiosity is not a sin… but we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.”
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“Where’s the fun without a bit of risk?”
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“Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.”
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“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.”
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“What would come, would come… and you would have to meet it, when it did.”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix –
“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.”
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“Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
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“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
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“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
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“You should write a book, Hermione, translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”
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“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
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“Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.”
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“The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are…”
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“Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.”
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“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”
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“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
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“In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.”
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“A good first impression can work wonders”
– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince –
“When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear…”
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“I like a quiet life, you know me.”
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“I am not worried… I am with you.”
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“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
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“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
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“We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, but battle on.”
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“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
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“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”
– Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows –
“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
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“Cinderella? Snow White? What’s that? An illness?”
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“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”
“…I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.”
“Well reasoned.”
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“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
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“Will you stay with me?”
“Until the very end.”
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“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
-J.K. Rowling, shared by: goodreads
chasingtheturtle 
Nice collection of the best quotes from the series 🙂
Hi, could you please tell me where in the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is said “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life”? I can´t seem to find it. Many thanks!