Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLINGYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLINGDon’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
J. K. ROWLINGYou can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
J. K. ROWLINGUnderstanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J. K. ROWLINGThe world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
J. K. ROWLINGIn the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
J. K. ROWLINGDifferences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. ROWLINGIt 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. ROWLINGYou must accept the reality of other people.
J. K. ROWLINGPoverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLINGI want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
J. K. ROWLINGThere’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
J. K. ROWLINGWhen people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. ROWLINGI’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
J. K. ROWLINGFirst sign of madness, talking to your own head.
J. K. ROWLINGIt was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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