Patricia Briggs Quotes

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

I have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have gotten sucked into it, too; I can't wait for the next one to come out. I am trying to figure out what happens with Harry and Voldemort. So we have been reading that.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.

Some superstition … prevented even the children from eating the myriads of blackberries which ripened on the bushes .

When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.

It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Bite me, Harry Potter.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about acting or a career. I just wanted to be Ron, really. It was a very unusual introduction into the industry, and we learned so much. It's been a real education and an evolution. I really, really enjoy this.

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.