Susan Cooper - Over Sea, Under Stone (1965)

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You have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will, he added softly to himself, for there is something of each in every man.

Susan Cooper

All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret.

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

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

Susan Cooper