Amanda

“There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody to whisper to, during the warm beautiful dream-taut moments between hanging the empty stocking at the end of the bed, and dropping into the cosy oblivion that would flower into the marvel of Christmas morning.”
― Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising

“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 ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising)”
― Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising

“Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.”
― Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising

“every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.”
― Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising