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

—  Susan Cooper

Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 14 “Caer Wydyr” (p. 190)

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