More from J. K. Rowling
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Depression is the absence of hope.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling
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Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
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Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
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Lesha VergnolLesha Vergnol The most difficult situation in life is being aware that you’re lost.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Is this what they call depression? Cuz I don’t know.
Outsourced FeelingsOutsourced Feelings Is this what they call depression? Cuz I don’t know.
Outsourced FeelingsOutsourced Feelings Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre GideAndre Gide Constant worrying is useless, don’t waste your time.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Anxiety is on the run and depression sleeps in the next room.
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