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

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.

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.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.