Susan Cooper Quotes

• The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.

  Susan Cooper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

  Susan Cooper

  Action, Ends, Small Actions

  Susan Cooper (2014). “Ghost Hawk”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end.

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  Believe, Journey, Ends

  Susan Cooper (2013). “Seaward”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.

  Susan Cooper

  Being Yourself, Powerful, Media

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• 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

  Lying, Dark, Simple

  Susan Cooper (2010). “Silver on the Tree”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Caring, Past, Fire

  Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Prayer, Doe, Quests

  Susan Cooper (2010). “Silver on the Tree”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience. But it is possible to find one's way back. With affection and respect, I disagree totally with Penelope Lively's conviction about the 'absolute impossibility of recovering a child's vision.' There _are_ ways, imperfect, partial, fleeting, of looking again at a mystery through the eyes we used to have. Children are not different animals. They are us, not yet wearing our heavy jacket of time.

  Susan Cooper

  Children, Eye, Acceptance

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• Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

  Susan Cooper

  Tonight, Tomorrow

  Susan Cooper (2005). “The Dark Is Rising”, Aladdin Paperbacks

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• So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

  Susan Cooper

  Dark, Years, White

  Susan Cooper (2011). “The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels”, p.182, Candlewick Press

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• 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

  Children, Lying, Sleep

  Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

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• When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

  Susan Cooper

  Song, Dark, Sea

  Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

  Susan Cooper

  Writing, Poet

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• 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.

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  Uncles, Hero, Fighting

  Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... 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.

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  Law, Done, World

  Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.

  Susan Cooper

  Wise, Stupid, Fate

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• Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.

  Susan Cooper

  Doors, Behinds

  Susan Cooper (2012). “Over Sea, Under Stone”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Fall, Dark, White

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• Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’ ‘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….

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  Father, Adversity, People

  Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.

  Susan Cooper

  Pain, Heart, Ache

  Susan Cooper (2001). “The Boggart”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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