As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.