Quotes About Azkaban

#1. I did my waiting! Twelve years of it, in Azkaban!

J.K. Rowling

#2. Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. While it remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularly rotated from the mainland. There has been no breakout since this new system was introduced.

J.K. Rowling

#4. For an instant Harry imagined his own Mum and Dad in Azkaban with the Dementors sucking out their life, draining away the happy memories of their love for him. Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shutdown and told him never to imagine that again.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban ...

J.K. Rowling

#6. Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" -

J.K. Rowling

#7. You couldn't leave your home planet while it still contained a place like Azkaban.
You had to stay and fight.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. Harry Potter. But Dumbledore won't always be there to protect you." Harry looked mockingly all around the shop. "Wow . . . look at that . . . he's not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!

J.K. Rowling

#9. I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Diane Paulus

#10. Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion with Him.

D.L. Moody

#12. Aomame tried her best to keep her mind clear of any thoughts, but it was impossible not to think of anything. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I love you," Matt said.
I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."
If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt.

Nancy Farmer

#14. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...

J.K. Rowling

#15. Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

David Gemmell

#16. It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing.

Honore De Balzac

#17. The best vitality Cannot excel decay;

Emily Dickinson

#18. While we need to look deeply into the Scriptures Jesus knew, we needn't look beyond them for things that aren't there.

Ann Spangler

#19. If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.

Orson Scott Card

#20. Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

William James

#21. Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

Jean Helion

#22. The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.

Lois Lowry

#23. Only where God is can there be a new beginning. We cannot command God to grant it; we can only pray to God for it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

J.K. Rowling

#26. Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig...

J.K. Rowling

#27. There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace ...

Barbara Woodall

#28. With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

Guillermo Del Toro