# Silver on the Tree

- Author: [Susan Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree

## Quotes

> That one is so sharp he will cut himself.

p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/that-one-is-so-sharp.md)

> “For remember,” he said, “that it is altogether your world now. You and all the rest. We have delivered you from evil, but the evil that is inside men is at the last a matter for men to control. The responsibility and the hope and the promise are in your hands—your hands and the hands of the children of all men on this earth. The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.”
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> His voice rang out over the mountain, more impassioned than any of them had ever heard a voice before, and they stood quiet as standing stones, listening.
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> “For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you. Now especially since man has the strength to destroy this world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in all its beauty and marvellous joy.”

p. 272 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/for-remember-he-said.md)

> The mindless ferocity of this man, and all those like him, their real loathing born of nothing more solid than insecurity and fear...It was a channel. Will knew that he had been gazing into the channel down which the powers of the Dark, if they gained their freedom, could ride in an instant to complete control of the earth.

p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/the-mindless-ferocity.md)

> The Land is neither of the Dark nor the Light, nor ever was. Its enchantment was of a separate kind, the magic of the mind and the hand and the eye, that owes no allegiance because it is neither good nor bad. It has no more to do with the behaviour of men, or the great absolutes of the Light and the Dark, than does the blossom of a rose or the curving leap of a fish.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/the-land-is-neither.md)

> Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.

p. 190 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/strong-as-a-young.md)

> Bran said, “Why should some of the riders of the Dark be dressed all in white and the rest all in black?”
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> “Without color....” 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.”

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/bran-said-why.md)

> “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.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cooper/silver-on-the-tree/all-life-is-theatre.md)