Susan Cooper - Kind Quotes

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The Land is neither of the Dark nor the Light, nor ever was. Its enchantment was of a separate kind, the magic of the mind and the hand and the eye, that owes no allegiance because it is neither good nor bad. It has no more to do with the behaviour of men, or the great absolutes of the Light and the Dark, than does the blossom of a rose or the curving leap of a fish.

Susan Cooper

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.... He laughed gently. Some players would say that is the best kind of theatre there can be.

Susan Cooper

But why Latin? demanded Barney.
I don't know, the monks just always used it, that's all, it was one of their things. I suppose it's a religious-sounding kind of language.

Susan Cooper