Die schönsten Buchwidmungen & Vorworte

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

To my husband, David Yoon, who showed me my heart.
And to my smart, beautiful daughter Penny, who made it bigger.

To the First Mother who Brings up a Happy Child.

To Mom,
Who took me to the library.

To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

For Kate and Morgan
and for everyone
whose first love
was a hard love.

To all the English teachers, especially the great ones.

My first stepfather used to say that what I didn’t know would fill a book. Well, here it is.

Dedicated to: You.
There will never be another like you.
For me... you are the one.
Yeah, I don't have enough words for this...

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth
When he was a little boy

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

People say you fall in love, but fall is such a sad word when you think about it. Falls are never good. You fall on the ground, you fall behind, you fall to your death. Whoever was the first person to say they fell in love must have already fallen out of it. Otherwise, they'd have called it something much better.

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Bea: "If I steal, I do it because my friends and my family need me to."
Watson: "Take a trip to the gallows, you'll have all number of murderers telling you they did it in the name of necessity."

All nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.