I couldn’t help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again,...

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly...

What’s needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

You couldn’t changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around.This whole business with seeking Slytherin’s secrets… seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, ‘And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.’And he...

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.

I don’t want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.