Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

— J.K. Rowling

153. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

— J.K. Rowling

154. “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”

— J.K. Rowling

155. “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

— J.K. Rowling

156. “No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.”

— J.K. Rowling

157. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

— J.K. Rowling

158. “Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good...”

— J.K. Rowling

159. “The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”

— J.K. Rowling

160. “And what will you give me in return, Severus?’ ‘In – in return?’ Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, ‘Anything...”

— J.K. Rowling

161. “We all must face the choice between what’s right and what is easy.”

— J.K. Rowling

162. “Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”

— J.K. Rowling

163. “The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

164. “Give her hell from us, Peeves.”

— J.K. Rowling

165. “The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”

— J.K. Rowling

166. “It unscrews the other way.”

— J.K. Rowling

167. “You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.”

— J.K. Rowling

168. “It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”

— J.K. Rowling

169. “You might belong in Gryffindor where dwell the brave at heart. Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.”

— J.K. Rowling

170. “What a beautiful place to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend... Harry Potter...”

— J.K. Rowling

171. “The more you care, the more you have to lose.”

— J.K. Rowling

172. “We did it, we bashed them wee Potter’s the one, and Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!”

— J.K. Rowling

173. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

— J.K. Rowling

174. “You see what you expect to see, Severus.”

— J.K. Rowling

175. “I think I’ll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up – it always does in the end.”

— J.K. Rowling

176. “Enemies of the Heir, beware! You’ll be next, Mudbloods!”

— J.K. Rowling

177. “Where’s the fun without a bit of risk?”

— J.K. Rowling

178. “While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one.”

— J.K. Rowling

179. “Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.”

— J.K. Rowling

180. “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

— J.K. Rowling

181. “The magic continues, destiny awaits.”

— J.K. Rowling

182. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone will give us some protection forever. it is in your skin.”

— J.K. Rowling

183. “What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?”

— J.K. Rowling

184. “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”

— J.K. Rowling

185. “You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”

— J.K. Rowling

186. “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

— J.K. Rowling

187. “No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”

— J.K. Rowling

188. “The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!”

— J.K. Rowling

189. “Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby knew!” he sobbed. “Farewell, Harry Potter!”

— J.K. Rowling

190. “You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.”

— J.K. Rowling

191. “It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”

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192. “Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.”

— J.K. Rowling

193. “I mean, it’s sort of exciting isn’t it? Breaking the rules.”

— J.K. Rowling

194. “Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

— J.K. Rowling

195. “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.”

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196. “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

— J.K. Rowling

197. “I will not calm down!”

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198. “You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

199. “You don’t have to do everything alone, Harry.”

— J.K. Rowling

200. “You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

— J.K. Rowling