“It’s men who have visions,’ said Moravik. ‘It’s women who bear the children to fulfil them.” — Mary Stewart Children Copy Share Image
“and behind the stone the faint drifting of the stars that is not movement, but the heavens breathing. Still” — Mary Stewart Astronomy Copy Share Image
“There is no one so leadenfooted as the reluctant bringer of bad news.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.” — Mary Stewart Child Copy Share Image
“To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.” — Mary Stewart Camelot Copy Share Image
“The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.” — Mary Stewart Driving Copy Share Image
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. — Mary Stewart Forgetting Copy Share Image
“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and… — Mary Stewart Tragedy Copy Share Image
“I had been so used to God's voice in the fire and stars that I had forgotten to listen for it in… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. — Mary Stewart Greece Copy Share Image
“In the morning it was fine, with one of those glittering sharp days that December sometimes throws down like bright gold among… — Mary Stewart Leadership Copy Share Image
“The boredom and annoyance that shut down over it were humiliatingly plain to see. I could have slapped her for it.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a… — Mary Stewart Joy Copy Share Image
“Something was moving; there was a kind of breathing brightness in the air, the wind of God brushing by, invisible in sunlight.” — Mary Stewart Sunlight Copy Share Image
“By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Alive Copy Share Image
“this might be a beauty to send men mad. Her body was slight with a child’s slenderness, but her breasts were full… — Mary Stewart Beauty Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now,… — Mary Stewart Grief Copy Share Image
“I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there… — Mary Stewart Loneliness Copy Share Image
“I'm not a person whom the sight of olive oil repels, and I love Greek cooking. We had onion soup with grated… — Mary Stewart Food Copy Share Image
It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own… — Mary Stewart Alive Copy Share Image
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole… — Mary Stewart Art Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“But the Easter sacrifice in their own homes - well, think it over. I used to think the same as you, and… — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each… — Mary Stewart Darkness Copy Share Image
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small… — Mary Stewart Live life Copy Share Image
“I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport. We reached Paris just as the light was fading.… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“There, below the cliffs, is a bay of sand where the rocks stand up like the fangs of wolves, and no boat… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“I saw it begin; even so, after battle, Ambrosious' very presence had give the wounded strength and the dying comfort. Whatever it… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Then quiet, but clear as a shout, the King called, ‘Here!’ and flung his own sword, hilt first, into the air. Arthur’s… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.” — Mary Stewart Sun Copy Share Image
