Citations:horcrux

Noun: "in the Harry Potter series, an object in which a wizard has concealed a part of their soul through magic, rendering them immortal (...)"



 * 2013, Adam Rawlins, The Strange Encounter of Sally Shakespeare and Toby Tinker, page 24:
 * They stared at it as if it was the one ring or the holy grail or a horcrux, or perhaps all of them rolled into one. An empty, plastic cat food bowl.
 * 2013, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, page 20:
 * They were standard fit, vintage wash, pretty expensive, and I showed them to him and I said, “These are yours if you want them.” And do you know what he did? He actually flinched. Like these were haunted pants or something. Like these were Horcrux jeans with a piece of Lord Voldemort’s soul in them.
 * 2014, Rachel Gibson, What I Love About You, page 151:
 * “How many Horcruxes have you created?” Blake asked as he put his card back in his wallet.
 * 2015, Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw, page 64:
 * I point my fork toward Lindsey and Rachel. “Everybody with their faces buried in their screens. Are they looking for clues to find the horcrux? What’s so interesting?”
 * 2016, Joe Halstead, West Virginia, page 38:
 * Again, he didn’t say anything and she asked him about the arrowhead—was it his Horcrux or something? was there a piece of his soul trapped inside it?—and he shrugged it off.
 * 2016, Richard Kim, "It's Not Her Turn", in ''Who is Hillary Clinton?: Two Decades of Answers from the Left, pages 308-309:
 * And just how many horcruxes need to be destroyed before Larry Summers is forever vanquished from public life?
 * 2017, Perdita Cargill, Waiting for Callback: Take Two, page 203:
 * I was quite glad when Moss put Poppy Leadley away (burying the magazine under a heavy pile of architecture books like it contained a Horcrux).
 * 2017, Angie Stanton, Waking in Time, page 114:
 * “A talisman?”
 * “An object that holds some sort of power or energy.”
 * “Like it’s a horcrux, something enchanted like the effigy mounds?”
 * 2017, Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide, page 165 (approx.):
 * So unless your journal is actually a horcrux, | vote for keeping it around.
 * 2017, Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide, page 165 (approx.):
 * So unless your journal is actually a horcrux, | vote for keeping it around.

Noun: "(by extension) something in which one has invested a part of one's self; an object which allows for the preservation of memory, culture, etc."

 * 2011, Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (in Real Life), page 88:
 * If you want the super-Nerdy analogy, imagine that each song is a Horcrux, which contains a tiny piece of your soul that you can scatter and map out in the world.
 * 2016, Jennifer Bosworth, The Killing Jar, page 18:
 * “Oh. Um. Thanks.” I would rather have carried it myself. My guitar was like an extension of me, a Horcrux containing a piece of my soul.
 * 2016, Cheryl B. Klein, The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults, page 338:
 * When I read manuscripts, I feel very aware that some part of the writer's soul lives in the pages—like a good Horcrux, say—and if I’m turning one down, I need to do so with thoughtfulness and respect.
 * 2016, Anusha Subramanian, Never Gone, page 130:
 * ‘You must be my Horcrux, because you complete me,’ Siddharth laughed softly.
 * 2017, E. Christopher Clark, Missing Mr. Wingfield, page 133:
 * Love is like a horcrux, isn’t it? You know what I’m talking about, right? 'Horcruxes are those awful left-behind bits of bad guy we found about in the latest Harry Potter. Love is like a horcrux, I say, only not as evil. You carve off a piece of yourself for every person you love and you leave it behind, just like Voldemort does when he kills someone. A souvenir that’s forever. That’s what love is. At least I think so.
 * 2017, Holly Smale, Forever Geek, page 332:
 * I don't know how Yuka knew that this was the piece of me | loved the most, but somehow she did. (Or maybe it’s the only Horcrux | haven't successfully destroyed yet, like a fashion-world Harry Potter.)
 * 2021, Curt Cloninger, Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art, page 383:
 * Via nostalgia and sentimentality, objects act for humans as unwitting mnemonic horcruxes (my analogy, not Schwenger’s), storing parts of our memories inside themselves for our later involuntary retrieval.
 * 2021, Curt Cloninger, Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art, page 383:
 * Via nostalgia and sentimentality, objects act for humans as unwitting mnemonic horcruxes (my analogy, not Schwenger’s), storing parts of our memories inside themselves for our later involuntary retrieval.
 * Via nostalgia and sentimentality, objects act for humans as unwitting mnemonic horcruxes (my analogy, not Schwenger’s), storing parts of our memories inside themselves for our later involuntary retrieval.