Joanne Rowling Quotes

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

Joanne Rowling

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• Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Sea
  • Garden