Quotes for When You Need Hope · Page 67

Quotes to nurture your hope and remind you that better days are ahead.

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“Now that would have been science fiction a few years ago, but it's here and it's happening and it doesn't matter whether it's an acute injury or a chronic injury.”

— Christopher Reeve

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man’s complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.”

— John Cheever

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a…”

— Thomas Szasz

“Hermione was very easy to create because she is based almost entirely on myself at the age of 11. She is really a caricature of me.”

— J.K. Rowling

“She might even have grown to love him romantically (she certainly loved him as a friend) if he had not loved Dark Magic so much, and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Lupin’s condition of lycanthropy (being a werewolf) was a metaphor for those illnesses that carry a stigma, like HIV and AIDS.”

— J.K. Rowling

“What I've tried to show in the Potter books, and what I feel strongly myself, is that we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There is no book on this planet that I would burn, including books that I do think are damaging. Burning, to me, is the last resort of people who cannot argue.”

— J.K. Rowling

“I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.”

— Stephen Colbert

“We call it the Joy Machine because, to do this many shows, it has to be a machine. But the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesn't hurt as much when your fingers get…”

— Stephen Colbert