“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
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
I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face. — Mary Stewart Blue 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 suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. — Mary Stewart Get to know me 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of… — Mary Stewart Refuse 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
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it. — Mary Stewart Believe Copy Share Image
“There is no one so leadenfooted as the reluctant bringer of bad news.” — Mary Stewart Bad news Copy Share Image
“A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.” — Mary Stewart Child 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
