“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
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
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart Circles 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
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything;… — Mary Stewart Every man 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
“By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.” — Mary Stewart Humorous-quotes 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. — Mary Stewart Memory 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
“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 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
“It’s men who have visions,’ said Moravik. ‘It’s women who bear the children to fulfil them.” — Mary Stewart Children Copy Share Image
“I was back on the scented hillside with the moon coming out above the ruins of the temple where nothing remains now… — Mary Stewart 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
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 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 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 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
“The Romans gave them Roman names, and let them be; but the Christians refuse to believe in them, and their priests berate… — Mary Stewart Christianity 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
“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“I assure you, I've come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things… — Mary Stewart Books Copy Share Image