Odo: It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice… is that sometimes, they make the wrong choice.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3: Episode 24 – “Shakaar”
“Harry, I’ve left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry –”
“They won’t,” said Harry.
“That you’re safe –”
“That’ll just depress them.”
“– and you’ll see them next summer.”
“Do I have to?”
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Harry descended the stairs, very conscious of everybody still staring at him, stowing his wand in the back pocket of his jeans as he came.
“Don’t put your wand there, boy!” roared Moody. “What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have list buttocks, you know!”
“Who d’you know who’s lost a buttock?” the violet-haired woman asked Mad-Eye interestedly.
“Never you mind, you just keep your wand out of your back pocket!” growled Mad-Eye. “Elementary wand safety, nobody bothers about it anymore. . . .” He stumped off toward the kitchen. “And I saw that,” he added irritably, as the woman rolled her eyes at the ceiling.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Glinda: I’ve heard it said
that people come into our lives for a reason,
bringing something we must learn,
and we are led to those
who help us most to grow
if we let them, and we help them in return.
Well, I don’t know if I believe that’s true,
but I know I’m who I am today,
because I knew you.
Wicked – “For Good”
“What were you doing under our window, boy?”
“Listening to the news,” said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
“Listening to the news! Again?”
“Well, it changes every day, you see,” said Harry.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided… Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
“You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling