We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life.
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience. " "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little. " "Aren't you lucky. " The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No… all the rest of you are fortunate.
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story?. . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.
. . . I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.