Mary Stewart Quotes

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• The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
• ...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 sworn...as the white…
• Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
• But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
• I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for…
• It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason.…
• Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle…
• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy…
• I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
• It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
• The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
• Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have…
• I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
• I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something…
• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
• I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
• The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
• The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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