I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. — Mary Stewart Hands 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 essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try — Mary Stewart Essence Copy Share Image
“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.” — Mary Stewart 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 Doe 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
“Literature and fiction are full of femmes fatales, but there is also an homme fatal, an altogether rarer bird, and pity help… — Mary Stewart Books 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
“It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.” — Mary Stewart Choice 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 God'S Voice Copy Share Image
“It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are… — Mary Stewart Awkward moment 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
“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
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. — Mary Stewart Greece 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 War 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 Arthur Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on,… — Mary Stewart Childhood 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
“You made a discovery yesterday; remember? 'No man is an Island.' It's true in more ways than one. Don't go on hating… — Mary Stewart Hating yourself Copy Share Image
“Life had stopped. Life would have to go on. Life went on, and in time the unbelievable began to happen; pleasure and… — Mary Stewart Happiness 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
“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 Green beans 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 Courage 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
