It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I” — Mary Stewart Smell Copy Share Image
“It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.” — Mary Stewart Choice Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. — Mary Stewart Future Copy Share Image
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“We have lived under the edge of doom, and feel ourselves now facing the long-threatened fate. But hear this Emrys: fate is… — Mary Stewart Destiny Copy Share Image
...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave…Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have… — Mary Stewart Horse Copy Share Image
“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where… — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
“If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was… — Mary Stewart Midnight Copy Share Image
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down,… — Mary Stewart Imagery Copy Share Image
“I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a… — Mary Stewart Father Copy Share Image
“It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked out, low and… — Mary Stewart Flowers Copy Share Image
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in… — Mary Stewart Arthurian Copy Share Image
“The village is perched on a precipitous hillside, and the houses are built in tiers, one up behind the other, the floor… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow and brim, till… — Mary Stewart Astronomy Copy Share Image
“There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was… — Mary Stewart Love Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Boredom Copy Share Image
“a dream half-waking, broken and uneasy, of the small gods of small places; gods of hills and woods and streams and crossways;… — Mary Stewart Christian church Copy Share Image
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart Books Copy Share Image
I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face. — Mary Stewart Blue Copy Share Image
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. — Mary Stewart Get to know me Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Books Copy Share Image
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand. — Mary Stewart Knowledge Copy Share Image
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.” — Mary Stewart Dreams Copy Share Image
“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try — Mary Stewart Essence Copy Share Image
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. — Mary Stewart Courage Copy Share Image
“If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and… — Mary Stewart Sunsets Copy Share Image
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat… — Mary Stewart Ambitious Copy Share Image
It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all… — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
“I found that I was reaching, automatically, for another cigarette; my eyes and throat felt hot and aching, and my brain stupid.… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall… — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
