#ore

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons #smart

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#called #die #eyes #fact #in fact

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life. ↗

— Dana Delany

#i #life #more #place #reached

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dumbledore #fang #horcrux #misery #death

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dying #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame — ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Joe" I said. "It's Stephanie." "Does this involve death?" "Not yet." "Does this involve sex?" "Not yet." "I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#stephanie #death

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother! Surely we are not lost--while we live. ↗

— John Hepworth

#death #fiction #hope #last-lines #the-long-green-shore

Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #ron-weasley #death