"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin."

“The witches have talked about this child for centuries past. Because they live so close to the place where the veil between the worlds is thin, they hear immortal whispers from time to time, in the voices of those beings who pass between the worlds. And they have spoken of a child such as this, who has a great destiny....But she must fulfil this destiny in ignorance of what she is doing, because only in her ignorance can we be saved.”

One of the best trilogies I have read in recent times. Though this epic story is directed towards children, I strongly feel that adults can enjoy these books too. For it is a rare enough thing to find magic, philosophy, theology and science fiction entwined so harmoniously in a single book.