In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

If somebody swapped the real sword for the fake while it was in Dumbledore's office, she panted, as they propped the painting against the side of the tent, Phineas Nigellus would have seen it happen, he hangs right beside the case!

Snape : Sometimes costs are made to be borne.

You have a streak of pride and independence that might have ruined all.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

The fact that you can feel the pain like this is for your greatest strength.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.