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Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5) QUOTES

Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5) 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 " 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)

4 " 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)

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

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

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

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

7 " 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)

8 " 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)

9 " 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)

10 " 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)

11 " 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)

12 " For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you. "

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

13 " Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it. "

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

14 " 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)

15 " Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that. "

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

16 " 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. "

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

17 " Now especially since man has the strength to destroy the world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvelous joy. "

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

18 " I remember it was a damn funny thing for a stranger to say," Stephen said. "Old Ones, we Old Ones. With capital letters-- you could *hear* them. "

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

19 " 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)

20 " Honest. I know. But all the same... woo!" It was a head-back, beaming, yelping shout of joyful excitement, spontaneous and startling, and every face turned; their apprehensiveness faded for a moment, and even Merriman, stern for the first instant, laughed aloud. "Yes!" he said. "We need that as much as the sword, Barney. "

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