All life is theater,' 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....

— Susan Cooper

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

— Susan Cooper

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

— Susan Cooper

... He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urge to hurt, and it was, as it always will be, the most dreadful sight in the world.

— Susan Cooper

I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. Furthermore, I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. Furthermore, I think our choices are our own.

— Susan Cooper

It is a burden...(M)AKE no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."- Susan Cooper ("Harriman" The Dark is Rising)

— Susan Cooper

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

— Susan Cooper

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

— Susan Cooper

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

— Susan Cooper

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theater or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

— Susan Cooper