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Susan Cooper QUOTES

Susan Cooper QUOTES

1 " The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

2 " The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

3 " And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come. "

― Susan Cooper , Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)

4 " All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves.... "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

5 " ... He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urge to hurt, and it was, as it always will be, the most dreadful sight in the world. "

― Susan Cooper , The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4)

6 " Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him. "

― Susan Cooper , Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)

7 " Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

8 " Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

9 " Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

10 " I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

11 " You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction... "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

12 " For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world. "

― Susan Cooper , The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

13 " She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book. "

― Susan Cooper , King of Shadows

14 " The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of cloud on either side, and yet never moving from its place. "

― Susan Cooper , Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)

15 " Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be. "

― Susan Cooper , Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)

16 " The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

17 " For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)

18 " Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil. "

― Susan Cooper , Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)

19 " The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere. "

― Susan Cooper , The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

20 " So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds. "

― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)