Quotes, Harry Potter Fanfiction Edition

"Harry leans against him. 'You were fifteen. Your father had taught you nothing about the world as it really is, and you loved him. I can’t fault you on that. My father wasn’t perfect, either. The only reason I grew up questioning everything was because no one ever loved me enough to teach me certainty.'"

An Act of Simple Devotion
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"Maybe it's not who you're with that matters. Maybe it's who you are with the person you're with."

Glass Half Full~
When Severus answered, his voice was soft and low, his face shadowed by the long strips of black hair hanging down the sides. “If you start changing yourself to suit the world’s expectations you’ll never stop. You’re fine just being who you are. If others don’t see that, it’s their loss.”

Commonplace Magic
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"The way customers often treated him was shameful, the way society ignored the necessity of a paid sexual outlet and marginalized those who either chose or fell into the occupation was shameful. Being a prostitute wasn't."

Touch and Go
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"Because you'd sit there with your jaw open and ask ridiculous questions. Love isn't all grand passions and dying confessions, Sirius. You read too many Russian novels."
– Remus

Stealing Harry
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"Some small and rather childish part of Harry wanted to giggle hysterically about the sheer absurdity of the fact that Severus Snape was touching him, Harry James Potter, willingly and without any apparent intent to kill."

In This World For You
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"With another sigh, Harry leaned against the door frame. 'You're right, is all. About love, I mean. Everybody says it's meant to be this brilliant thing -- that it's meant to be pure and wonderful, and all you need, and stronger than Death, and all those stupid things they write in the songs.' The ghostly taste of his liquor and kisses he'd imbibed earlier returned to him, far more bitter in retrospect. Harry swallowed against it, and shook his head. 'But then they turn around and treat it like some great bloody game.' If Harry couldn't keep the disgust from colouring his voice, at least he liked to tell himself he managed to conceal the self-pity reasonably well.

Everybody's Fool
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"Even the title is ridiculous. There is something about Mary? Honestly. They should have named it: There is something about the way Muggles lack a complete sense of humor and deserve to die violent deaths." - Voldemort

The Semblance of Peace
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"Dumbledore chuckled. 'Of course you fought; all lovers do. The more passion between lovers, the deeper the stakes, the more volatile the arguments become.'"

Better Late Than Never
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"He takes this as an invitation to apply his tongue, which fails to startle me: he never did understand the scales of power, or how unattractive eagerness is."

Our Masters In The Flesh
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"When we are young we believe that we know everything, and so we believe that if we see no explanation for something, then no explanation exists. When we are older we realize that the whole universe works by a rhythm and a reason, even if we ourselves do not know it. It is only our own ignorance which appears to us as insanity."

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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"You had to break in half to love someone. He was not that much of a fool yet." - Snape

Where the Heart Moves the Stone
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