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21 " Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That’s your first lesson. "
― Susan Cooper , The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
22 " The Walker is abroad,” he said again. “And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. "
23 " Any great gift or power or talent is a burden, and this more than any, and you will often long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law. "
24 " The ears of an Old One know that birds do not speak with the precision of words; instead they communicate with emotion. There are many kinds and degrees of emotion, and there are many kinds of expression even in the language of a bird. "
25 " Take her from this road,' he said in a clear, loud voice, and the blazing circle of light moved slowly to one side, forcing the girl Maggie to stumble with it, until it hovered on the rough ground next to the road. "
26 " For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world. This was a brightness, a shining festival, and while its enchantment was on the world the charmed circle of his family and home would be protected against any invasion from outside. "
27 " stock-still "
28 " He stared; there was something wrong. The great wooden doors had vanished. The grey wall stretched blank, its massive square stones quite featureless except for one round golden shield, alone, hanging high up and glinting dully in the light from the fire. "
29 " Our wood is one which the Dark does not love. Rowan, Will, that’s our tree. Mountain ash. There are qualities in rowan, as in no other wood on the earth, that we need. "
30 " water was the one element that could in some measure defy all magic; for moving water would tolerate no magic whether for evil or good, but would wash it away as if it had never been made. "
31 " Minds hold more than they know,” the tall man said. "