Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. J. K. Rowling More Quotes by J. K. Rowling More Quotes From J. K. Rowling Authority figures always attract trouble J. K. Rowling figures authority trouble It's best to know what the enemy are saying. J. K. Rowling hermione knows enemy Luck can only get you so far. J. K. Rowling hermione luck There are much more terrible things than physical injury. J. K. Rowling terrible-things injury terrible There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. J. K. Rowling freedom-of-speech smart mouths This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom. J. K. Rowling encounters facts firsts I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t. J. K. Rowling sacrifice girl writing If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’. J. K. Rowling spiders ems would-be Books can be misleading... J. K. Rowling mislead book Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. J. K. Rowling acquisition achievement lists I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on. J. K. Rowling pudding book people Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. J. K. Rowling light dark night He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own. J. K. Rowling appreciate unique faces Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance J. K. Rowling vacancy birth consciousness The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality. J. K. Rowling dream wind reality Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. J. K. Rowling air sometimes quiet It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk? J. K. Rowling gestures simple comfort Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned. J. K. Rowling party witty school The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. J. K. Rowling ninety-nine mistake lying Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen. J. K. Rowling andrew idiot half
