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  1. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Bran said, "Why should some of the Riders of the Dark be dressed all in white and the rest all in black?" "Without colour...." Will said reflectively. "I don't know. 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.
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  2. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.
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  3. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    maybe because the dark can only reach people at the extremes-- those bound by their own shiny ideas or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
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  4. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Honest. I know. But all the same... woo!" It was a head-back, beaming, yelping shout of joyful excitement, spontaneous and startling, and every face turned; their apprehensiveness faded for a moment, and even Merriman, stern for the first instant, laughed aloud. "Yes!" he said. "We need that as much as the sword, Barney.
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  5. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    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.
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  6. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Where did they go?""Where the leaves go in autumn," Will said.Bran looked at him and seemed suddenly to relax; he grinned. "There's poetic, now."Will laughed. "It's true. Of course, the trouble with leaves is, they grow again...
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  7. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    I remember it was a damn funny thing for a stranger to say," Stephen said. "Old Ones, we Old Ones. With capital letters-- you could *hear* them.
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  8. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.
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  9. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...
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  10. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.
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  11. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    Now especially since man has the strength to destroy the world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvelous joy.
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  12. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.
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