Susan Cooper - Life Quotes

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Only the creatures of the earth take from one another, boy. All creatures, but men more than any. Life they take, and liberty, and all that another man may have—sometimes through greed, sometimes through stupidity, but never by any volition but their own. Beware your own race, Bran Davies—they are the only ones who will ever harm you, in the end.

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

For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

Susan Cooper