#house quotes

FOUR HOUSE: “The real magic for me is what people have created around the books and the community we have built together.” –Jackson Bird

SLYTHERIN: “If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman … have faith. There is yet time.” –Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run With the Wolves)

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

–Mary Oliver (The Summer Day)

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
Walk humbly now.
Do justly now.
Love mercy now.
You are not expected to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”

–Rabbi Rami Shapiro (Wisdom of the Jewish Sages: A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot)

GRYFFINDOR: “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” –Nina Simone

SLYTHERIN: “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.” –Simone de Beauvoir (All Said and Done)

RAVENCLAW: “All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and the against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in in you.” –Frances Wright (On the Nature of Knowledge and Kindred Inquiries)

HUFFLEPUFF: “Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.” –Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone)

GRYFFINDOR: “I don’t need to blink. Don’t need to breathe. A whirlwind could come howling in, and I wouldn’t budge. An earthquake could shake the ground, and I wouldn’t teeter. I am the force that quakes the earth.” –Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow)

SLYTHERIN: “… self-admiration giveth much consolation.” –Gertrude Atherton (Julia France and Her Times)

RAVENCLAW: “If I’m to kill myself, as it were, trying to think and behave as other people want me to, I feel I might as well never have lived.” –Andrew Davies + Elizabeth Gaskell (Molly Gibson: Wives and Daughters)

“But you are not alone in this
And you are not alone in this
As brothers we will stand and we’ll hold your hand
Hold your hand

–Mumford & Sons (Timshel)

GRYFFINDOR: “A hero could be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.” –Christopher Nolan + Jonathan Nolan (Batman: The Dark Knight Rises)

SLYTHERIN: “Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.” –Helen Hayes, with Sandford Dody (On Reflection, An Autobiography)

RAVENCLAW: “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to
familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their
power.” –Toni Morrison (Black Matters)

HUFFLEPUFF: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” –C.S. Lewis (letter to Mary Willis Shelburne, 17 June 1963)

“SHARONA: You gonna stay mad at him forever?
MONK: No, not forever, just until I die.”

–Tom Scharpling + Daniel Dratch + Hy Conrad (Monk: Mr. Monk and the Three Pies)

SLYTHERIN: “You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.” –T.B. LaBerge (Things I’m Still Learning at 25)

RAVENCLAW: “Every life is an unprecedented experiment. This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. There is no map. We are all pioneers.” –Glennon Doyle (Untamed)

HUFFLEPUFF: “There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.” –Arundhati Roy (Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech, 2004)

GRYFFINDOR: “Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere — that it costs something to be what you are.” –Shirley Abbott (Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South)

SLYTHERIN: “Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.” –Josephine Tey (Brat Farrar)

RAVENCLAW: “A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.” –Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human)

GRYFFINDOR: “I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.” –Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

SLYTHERIN: “Her sarcasm was so quick, so fine at the point — it was like being touched by a metal so cold that one doesn’t know whether one is burned or chilled.” –Willa Cather (My Mortal Enemy)

RAVENCLAW: “So, how do you calculate this sort of thing? Well, you just need a bit of insanity and some maths.” –Philipp Dettmer (Kurzgesagt: What Happens if the Moon Crashes into Earth?)

HUFFLEPUFF: “You get the job done or you don’t.” –Bill Belichick

GRYFFINDOR: “… it’s better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.” –Margaret Deland (The Third Volume)

SLYTHERIN: “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” –Ursula K. Le Guin (The Lathe of Heaven)

HUFFLEPUFF: “How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.” –Shinobu Hashimoto + Akira Kurosawa + Hideo Oguni (Ikiru)

GRYFFINDOR: “But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.” –J.M. Coetzee (Slow Man)

SLYTHERIN: “… a self-made martyr is a poor thing.” –Ellen Glasgow (Vein of Iron)

HUFFLEPUFF: “You’re wrong about us being on different paths. We’re not on different paths. You’re my path. And you’re always gonna be my path. And I know there’s a million reasons why we shouldn’t be together. I know that. But I’m tired of them. I’m tired of every single one of them. We’ve all gotta make a choice. Right? Well, I choose you.” –Alex Kurtzman + Roberto Orci + Jeff Pinkner (Peter Parker: The Amazing Spider-Man 2)

GRYFFINDOR: “Courage is the only Magick worth having.” –Erica Jong (Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones)

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