#l

Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell. "Because she was crying," Harry continued heavily. "Oh," said Ron, his smile faded slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?" "Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #kiss #love #ron-weasley #dating

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #love #snape #death

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #dumbledore #harry-potter #hurt #life

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#death

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #value #worth #death

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #life #death

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. ↗

— John Green

#death