J. K. Rowling Quotes

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

Books are packaged dreams.

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?