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

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

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.

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.

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Loving someone unconditionally is equivalent to unintentionally losing yourself in the game, and the damage you inflict on yourself goes unaffected by your lack of self-awareness and self-realization.

But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Two damaged people trying to heal each other is love.

You came into my life, with all your baggage, treatin’ me like collateral damage.

We rise from ashes; too damaged to be touched. yet, strong enough to rebuild kingdoms.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.