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41 " every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light. "
― Susan Cooper , The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
42 " It's all right!" Simon said hoarsely. Hastily he cleared his throat and put his shoulders back, though it was hard to recover dignity in pajamas. "
― Susan Cooper , Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising, #3)
43 " But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the holiday hotel or the voyage by sea or air. You enter it, you live there for a while, you leave again. Perhaps it will alter you; usually it will not. I suspect that the book which takes you into a world apart must also _trouble_ you, at least a little. And the troubling stays with you, like the grit in the oyster, and afterwards you are changed. "
― Susan Cooper , Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children
44 " The wind on the headland whined softly round them, and although, as they watched, Great-Uncle Merry’s expression did not change, they suddenly knew that some enormous emotion was flooding through him. Like an electric current it tingled the air, exciting and frightening at the same time; though they could not understand what it was. "
― Susan Cooper , Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
45 " It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you. "
― Susan Cooper , King of Shadows
46 " For him, Halloween was not All Hallows Eve "
― Susan Cooper , The Boggart
47 " First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will,” he added softly to himself, “for there is something of each in every man. "
48 " He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. There was in this music so much of the deepest enchantment of all his dreams and imaginings that he woke smiling in pure happiness at the sound. "
49 " Real is a hard word", he said. "Almost as hard as true, or now... "
― Susan Cooper , Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
50 " The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. "
51 " Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world because it has to be practiced in this very separate private world, in _here_. Not in the mind; in the imagination. And I think it is possible that the writing of fantasy is the loneliest job of the lot, since you have to go further inside. You have to make so close a connection with the unconscious that the unbiddable door will open and the images fly out, like birds. "
52 " Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that. "
53 " The Three Elders of the World,’ he said, ‘are the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, the Eagle of Gwernabwy, and the Blackbird of Celli Gadarn. "
― Susan Cooper , The Grey King (The Dark is Rising, #4)
54 " In the name of King Arthur, and of the old world before the dark came. "
55 " No, he didn’t win,” Great-Uncle Merry said, and even in the clear afternoon sunshine he seemed with every word to become more remote, as ancient as the rock behind him and the old world of which he spoke. "
56 " The children stared at him, awed and a little afraid. For a moment he was a stranger, someone they did not know. Jane had a sudden fantastic feeling that Great-Uncle Merry did not really exist at all, and would vanish away if they breathed or spoke. "
57 " Great-Uncle Merry stopped reading; but the children sat as still and speechless as if his voice still rang on. The story seemed to fit so perfectly into the green land rolling below them that it was as if they sat in the middle of the past. "
58 " The Herdsman passed, nodding, the bright star Arcturus at his knee; the Bull roared by, bearing the great sun Aldebaran and the small group of the Pleiades singing in small melodic voices, like no voices he had ever heard. "
59 " They are English,” Merriman said. “Quite right,” said Will’s father. “Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot. "
60 " But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better. "