Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you fin... - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with."

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

"I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive."

"I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry."

"Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice,"he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me."