Top 51 Susan Cooper Quotes
#1. People seemed to me to fill life with shadows that should not be there.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. So it will go," Merriman said. "He will have a sweet picture of the Dark to attract him, as men so often do, and beside it he will set all the demands of the Light, which are heavy and always will be.
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#5. They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication.
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#6. Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.
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#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.
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#8. Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato.
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#12. Poets find truth by writing about what they love.
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#13. Your father ... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.
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#14. Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially ... just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.
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#15. 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.
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#17. Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth
nothing is so simple as that.
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#18. Every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.
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#20. So the shortest day came, and the year died.
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#21. Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.
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#22. Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end.
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#23. In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.
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#24. 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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#25. If you are concerned for the future of our civilization, there is no more cheering sight than a boy or girl who is lost in a book. It's an image I cling to, in moments of depression: the absorbed child, reading.
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#26. 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 ...
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#27. 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.
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#28. Where did they go?"
"Where the leaves go in autumn," Will said.
Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. "There's poetic, now."
Will laughed. "It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again ...
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#29. Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.
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#30. He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which
having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred years during which it had included the British Isles
he found inaccurate and boring.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Wish on a star, said a tiny voice in his head from some long-departed day of early childhood: Wish on a star
the cry of pleasure and faith as ancient as the eyes of man.
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#34. For him, Halloween was not All Hallows Eve
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#35. 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.
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#37. Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.
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#38. Jane clutched her mug like a talisman of reality; then suddenly jumped so hard that she spilt half the cocoa on the window-sill.
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#39. For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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 ...
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That's your first lesson.
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#51. Real is a hard word", he said. "Almost as hard as true, or now...
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