She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white, with windows looking out onto impenetrable forest.

But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.

I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.

The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...”“Yes, they do that, ” said Dumbledore.

You don't need to be so fierce and bluffing..if you already know that I can't be intimidated.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.