“Beauty may seem like one of the greatest of blessings, but it can be a curse too. Some are born with a beauty that seems to turn people mad. Fortunately there are very few of us like that, but our power can be unsettling and even eruptive.”
Troy
Stephen Fry
“Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”
“Decent people are so easy to manipulate,”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling
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“To one as young as you, I’m sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.”
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
“Tell me one last thing,’ said Harry. ‘Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?’
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
‘Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
…But they were not living, thought Harry: they were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents’ mouldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off, or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them…
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth …”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike…”
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
“Doğa, birbirinin içine giren yuvarlaklıklardan oluşur. Sözcüğün gerçek anlamıyla desen yoktur! Gülmeyin genç adam. Bu söz size ne kadar tuhaf gelirse gelsin, günün birinde nedenlerini kavrarsınız. Çizgi, ışığın nesneler üstündeki etkisini vermek için insanoğlunun bulduğu bir yöntemdir; ama doğada çizgi yoktur, orada her şey doludur.”
“Sanatın görevi, doğayı kopyalamak değil, dışavurmaktır!”
“Sizler bir suratı doğru düzgün çizip her şeyi anatomi kurallarına göre yerleştirdiğinizde işiniz bitti sanıyorsunuz. Sonra bu çizgileri, daha önce paletinizde hazırladığınız bir ten rengiyle dolduruyor, bu arada bir yanın ötekinden daha koyu olmasına özen gösteriyorsunuz; bir yandan da masanın üstünde duran çıplak bir kadına zaman zaman baktığınız için doğayı kopyaladığınızı sanıyor, kendinizi ressam sayıyor ve Tanrı’nın gizini çaldığınızı düşünüyorsunuz!.. Hıh! Büyük şair olmak için dilbilgisini iyi bilmek ve dil yanlışı yapmamak yetmez!”