Quotes About The Dursleys

#1. What would happen when he told the Dursleys he was going to live with the convict they'd seen on television?

J.K. Rowling

#2. Good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say

J.K. Rowling

#3. The Dursleys liked everything neat and ordered; the Weasleys' house burst with the strange and unexpected. Harry

J.K. Rowling

#4. Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.

J.K. Rowling

#5. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they

J.K. Rowling

#6. Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy - this boy! - knows nothin' abou' - about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Harry had the best morning he'd had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him.

J.K. Rowling

#8. It's not possible to live with the Dursleys and not hate them," said Harry. "I'd like to see you try it.

J.K. Rowling

#9. He could not return to living full-time with the Dursleys, not now that he knew the other world, the one to which he really belonged.

J.K. Rowling

#10. It was better than Harry had expected. As for Dumbledore's writing to the Dursleys, that was nothing. Harry knew perfectly well they'd just be disappointed that the Whomping Willow hadn't squashed him flat.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

J.K. Rowling

#12. Yer ticket fer Hogwarts," he said. "First o' September - King's Cross - it's all on yer ticket. Any problems with the Dursleys, send me a letter with yer owl, she'll know where to find me. . . . See yeh soon, Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

#14. Every day I wrote in my journal: "How am I going to win today?" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels.

Tina Fey

#15. A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Bill Viola

#16. Music can see you through anything.

Hannah Harrington

#17. That was the thing about grief. It wasn't something you worked through once. It was something you worked through over and over again. The effects of losing someone lasted a lifetime.

Stephanie Reid

#18. Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Drake

#19. Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn't been high; they'd never given him a real present,

J.K. Rowling

#20. Great spirit, great-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

Vidya Balan

#22. The past exists only in your
mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your
mind because it has not happened.

Scott Adams

#23. Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life.

Chikamso Efobi

#24. Prosperity is peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.

Elle Lothlorien

#26. I've never seen so much suicide ... The Bible is full of hope.

Johnny Hunt