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SLYTHERIN:

“‘What’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet?’ 'Knife to the throat?’ asked Inej. 'Gun to the back?’ said Jesper. 'Poison in his cup?’ suggested Nina. 'You’re all horrible,’ said Matthias. Kaz rolled his eyes. 'The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.’” –Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows)

I am clumsy okay?

incorrect hp house quotes #1

Ravenclaw: why are you smiling? Slytherin: what? Can’t i just be happy? Hufflepuff: gryffindor tripped and fell in the parking lot

As is also true with humans. 🤟🏻 ♀️

GRYFFINDOR: He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.“

–Rudyard Kipling (The Female of the Species)

Hell yes to that.

RAVENCLAW: “I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.” –Sherman Alexie (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)

Totally agree with Tris here.

RAVENCLAW:

“TRIS: I was reading. SANDRY: You’re always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. TRIS: Then maybe they shouldn’t talk to me.” 

–Tamora Pierce (Briar’s Book)

RAVENCLAW: “Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper and ink and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.” –Susan Orlean (The Library Book)

SLYTHERIN:

“AMAZONIAN WARRIOR: May I deal with the prisoner for you? QUEEN DIANNA: No. The Queen of the Amazons is a servant to her people. Nothing is beneath her.”

–Jim Krieg (Wonder Woman: Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox)

RAVENCLAW: “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” –Anne Herbert

RAVENCLAW: “The problem for a writer with a genuinely comic imagination is not "making things funny” or even locating enough funny things in the real world to write about. Rather, the problem – and it’s the same for any artist – is getting other people to see things as you do, to honor the truth of your idiosyncratic way of seeing.“ –Richard Russo (The Gravestone and the Commode)