Susan Cooper

“Still in the black hemisphere the stars blazed and slowly wheeled; beneath them, Will felt so infinitesimally small that it seemed impossible…

— Susan Cooper

The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but…

— Susan Cooper

“He was tall, and straight, with a lot of very thick, wild, white hair. In his grim brown face the nose curved…

— Susan Cooper

“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.”

— Susan Cooper

“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like…

— Susan Cooper

“On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of…

— Susan Cooper

“If you are concerned for the future of our civilization, there is no more cheering sight than a boy or girl who…

— Susan Cooper

“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; water,…

— Susan Cooper

“Trance is fragile.”

— Susan Cooper

“Somewhere in Barney's mind, as a spark flickers and finds tinder and blazes up into a flame, a small light of resentment…

— Susan Cooper

“The Herdsman passed, nodding, the bright star Arcturus at his knee; the Bull roared by, bearing the great sun Aldebaran and the…

— Susan Cooper

Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very…

— Susan Cooper

“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…

— Susan Cooper

“Now especially since man has the strength to destroy the world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in…

— Susan Cooper

“Great-Uncle Merry, coming back towards the car from the Grey House, had suddenly stopped in his tracks in the middle of the…

— Susan Cooper

“Go away," he said. "Go away. I wish you had never come here. I wish I had never heard of the Light…

— Susan Cooper

“But a wild creature will always go back to the wild, in the end.”

— Susan Cooper

Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that…

— Susan Cooper

“the dark tree, the cold sea" although I know you can never be found although I know that from the highest height…

— Susan Cooper

“Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world because it has to be practiced in this very separate private world,…

— Susan Cooper

“First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago;…

— Susan Cooper

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

— Susan Cooper

“... in old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle…

— Susan Cooper

“Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato.”

— Susan Cooper

For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we…

— Susan Cooper