75 Quotes by Susan Cooper

Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all.

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth – nothing is so simple as that.

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.

He was among trees then, spring trees tender with the new matchless green of young leaves, and a clear sun dappling them; summer trees full of leaf, whispering, massive; dark winter firs that fear no master and let no light brighten their woods. He learned the nature of all trees, the particular magics that are in oak and beech and ash.

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

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.

Real is a hard word”, he said. “Almost as hard as true, or now...

The Walker is abroad,” he said again. “And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

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.