The Dark Is Rising Quotes

"I will tell you only this: that you are one of the Old Ones, the first to have been born for five hundred years, and the last. And like all such, you are bound by nature to devote yourself to the...

"We of the Circle are planted only loosely within Time. The doors are a way through it, in any direction we may choose. For all times co-exist, and the future can sometimes affect the past, even th...

He had suddenly had a strange feeling stronger than any he had ever known: he had been aware that someone was trying to tell him something, something that had missed him because he could not unders...

"The Walker is abroad," he said again. "And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining." (1.47)

"Make no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden, and this more than any, and you will often long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with...

He switched off the light again, and instantly everything was even worse than before. The fear jumped at him for the third time like a great animal that had been waiting to spring. Will lay terrifi...

"Too many kids in this family, that's what. Just too many." James stood fuming on the landing like a small angry locomotive […] "You'd think this house was big enough, but there's always people."...

"Minds hold more than they know," the tall man said. "Particularly yours. And what else have you to say?" (3.21)