“Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.”
“Lies will come back to bite you in the butt”
“It is real, isn’t it? It’s not a joke? Petunia says you’re lying to me. Petunia says there isn’t a Hogwarts. It is real, isn’t it?”“It’s real for us,” said Snape. “Not for her.”
“Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.”
“Things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that's all.”
“If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.”