Mary Stewart quotes

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. (Mary Stewart)
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try. View quote
Mary Stewart
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. View quote
Mary Stewart
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. View quote
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I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face. View quote
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Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. View quote
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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. It is their weakness, and their great strength. View quote
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The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. View quote
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one. View quote
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The gods love salt. The sweat of human endeavour adds savour to every sacrifice. View quote
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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 of loneliness with you... (Mary Stewart)
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. View quote
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. View quote
Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart

Occupation: English Novelist
Born: September 17, 1916
Died: May 10, 2014
Quotes count: 13
Wikipedia: Mary Stewart

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