Hold my heart with both hands and never let go. - the next-generation, and thirty-three lives they might have lived. /AlbusOC - It's really quite easy to understand how they got here.
"It's really not the kind of living that anyone expected them to do, but it works for them, and who cares what other people think, anyway?" - Demelza/Romilda/Michael
The only thing that stays with you forever is regret. - the nextgen in a hundred different ways. /PansyTeddy - "Sometimes he looks at the blonde woman in his bed and wishes that all those teen romance novels had never lied to him."
Someday you'll be strong enough to hold him up, like he holds you. /Padma and Ernie and the war, because love stops for no man, not even a mad one. M&MWP, part three of 'futility'.
"Why are you up, if you're supposed to be sleeping?" "Keeping you company, of course." /Katie's kind of maybe definitely in love with Eloise, but hello, there's a war on. M&MWP, part two of 'futility'.
You have awaited your death for nineteen years, since you set another's into motion. /Rabastan and James reconnect and remember. M&MWP, part one of 'futility'.
"Mary Cattermole, you are accused of stealing a witch's wand, and impersonating someone with magical blood. Do you plead guilty to these charges?" /the story of Reg and Mary Cattermole, before, during, and after the break-in at the Ministry.