until the very end.

We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

There’s always a sadness running all through you. — All so natural. — I trust it, you know. I trust that sadness.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

(…) without tenderness, we are in hell.

“Potter, do you understand what you are?” Draco asked softly. “You’re like a force of nature. You change everything you touch, even if you don’t mean to. Everything around you gets pulled into your orbit whether it wants to be or not. You change the dynamics of a room just by walking into it. You change the universe just by standing still and being who you are. It’s a rather amazing thing to watch.”

Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strikingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends.