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
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart Books 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 Hands 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
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it. — Mary Stewart Believe Copy Share Image
“Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?” — Mary Stewart Mary-stewart Copy Share Image
It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes. — Mary Stewart Knowing Copy Share Image
“I doubt if any son every knew more about his father and his father's father than I, with all you have told… — Mary Stewart Father Copy Share Image
“Oh, hell." He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. "This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce,… — Mary Stewart Farce Copy Share Image
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything;… — Mary Stewart Death Copy Share Image
“At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.” — Mary Stewart Poetry 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
“I lay wakeful, watching the empty dark, listening to the little wind which had sprung up throwing handfuls of rain against the… — Mary Stewart Rain 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 Smoked 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 Believe 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 Village Looks 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
“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
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 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 reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark — Mary Stewart Blanket 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 Dollar 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
“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
“To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.” — Mary Stewart Camelot 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
“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
“It’s men who have visions,’ said Moravik. ‘It’s women who bear the children to fulfil them.” — Mary Stewart Children Copy Share Image
“A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.” — Mary Stewart Child Copy Share Image
“There is no one so leadenfooted as the reluctant bringer of bad news.” — Mary Stewart Bad news 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
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 Blame 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 Chances 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
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
