When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. ROWLINGNo 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.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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