Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Quotes

“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“He didn’t realize that love as power­ful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the per­son who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“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 that are worst for them.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“The truth . . . It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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“There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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