Words worth keeping

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.