"I'm very much to blame for not seeing……" — 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 murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know."
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19 Quotes by Mary Stewart
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful…
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you…
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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the…
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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least…
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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when…
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It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond,…
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Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were,…
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to…
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I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are…
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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