Susan Cooper, Silver On The Tree Quotes

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

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

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....

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

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

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...