Quote

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

J. K. Rowling

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
Author
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Yate
Gloucestershire
Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
JK
JKR
Robert Galbraith
Joanne Rowling
Less
Desire
Nothing
Heart
Deepest
Desperate
Hearts

More quotes by J. K. Rowling

Image
Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go! Oh yeah, said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!
J. K. Rowling
Image
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
J. K. Rowling
Image
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop? How did you...? Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.
J. K. Rowling
Image
He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J. K. Rowling
Image
It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .
J. K. Rowling
Image
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!
J. K. Rowling
Image
Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?
J. K. Rowling
Image
THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!
J. K. Rowling
Image
You seem to be drowning twice, said Hermione. Oh, am I? said Ron peering down at his predictions. I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Look . . . at . . . me. . . .
J. K. Rowling
Image
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
J. K. Rowling
Image
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling
Image
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
J. K. Rowling
Image
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.
J. K. Rowling