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

Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Depression is very different.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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

Time is making fools of us again.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.