Mary Stewart Quotes

Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.

Press on, regardless.

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Oh, hell. He landed beside me, soft-footed on the pine needles. This is beginning to have all the elements of a farce, isn't it? Too many villains, and nothing to tie them up with.

It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cu...

You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging your...