Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J. K. ROWLINGWhen people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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Depression is very different.
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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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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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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It 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.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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