Mary Stewart

Quotes

• “To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignati...”
• “It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked out, low and bril...”
• “I assure you, I've come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things go on working...”
• “Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he...”
• “It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not l...”
• “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...”
• “Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own cr...”
• “Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a...”
• “Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot h...”
• “By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.”
• “At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.”
• “I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.”
• “The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
• “Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?”
• “Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted”
• “Used every man according to his capacity.”