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Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or loc...

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Silver on the Tree

... He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into...

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Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

Greenwitch

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm th...

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Silver on the Tree

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

Silver on the Tree

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

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

The Dark Is Rising

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the c...

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She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or ...

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King of Shadows

It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and thi...

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The Dark Is Rising

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your be...

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Silver on the Tree

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which...

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

Silver on the Tree

I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free wil...

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Silver on the Tree

The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds...

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Over Sea

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kep...

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Susan Cooper

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Born: 1935-05-23

Died: N/A

Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English-born American author of children’s books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a five-volume contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales.More