Mary Stewart

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

— Mary Stewart

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

— Mary Stewart

“Nothing ever happens to me.”

— Mary Stewart

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

— Mary Stewart

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

— Mary Stewart

“I'd settle for what you had to give”

— Mary Stewart

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

— Mary Stewart

“Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?”

— Mary Stewart

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

— Mary Stewart

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

— Mary Stewart

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

— Mary Stewart

“Funny, one somehow imagines her snuffing quietly out now, the way the moon would if the sun vanished.”

— Mary Stewart

“To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.”

— Mary Stewart

“The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.”

— Mary Stewart

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all…

— Mary Stewart

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall…

— Mary Stewart

“I found that I was reaching, automatically, for another cigarette; my eyes and throat felt hot and aching, and my brain stupid.…

— Mary Stewart

“If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was…

— Mary Stewart

“We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to…

— Mary Stewart

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

“I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a…

— Mary Stewart

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down,…

— Mary Stewart

“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

“It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of…

— Mary Stewart

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole…

— Mary Stewart

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own…

— Mary Stewart

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now,…

— Mary Stewart

“I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there…

— Mary Stewart

“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

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were…

— Mary Stewart

“There, below the cliffs, is a bay of sand where the rocks stand up like the fangs of wolves, and no boat…

— Mary Stewart

“I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport. We reached Paris just as the light was fading.…

— Mary Stewart

“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

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small…

— Mary Stewart

“But the Easter sacrifice in their own homes - well, think it over. I used to think the same as you, and…

— Mary Stewart

“Then quiet, but clear as a shout, the King called, ‘Here!’ and flung his own sword, hilt first, into the air. Arthur’s…

— Mary Stewart

“I saw it begin; even so, after battle, Ambrosious' very presence had give the wounded strength and the dying comfort. Whatever it…

— Mary Stewart

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

— Mary Stewart

“It’s men who have visions,’ said Moravik. ‘It’s women who bear the children to fulfil them.”

— Mary Stewart

“and behind the stone the faint drifting of the stars that is not movement, but the heavens breathing. Still”

— Mary Stewart