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8b78273 Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. Mary Stewart
aa37bf8 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. Mary Stewart
1778d04 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 sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. women Mary Stewart
33554d7 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
e10f62f To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again living music soul Mary Stewart
8be7722 The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. Mary Stewart
167368c Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white, like the moonlight. In fact, it is the moonlight, the moon itself, which is why they don't carry a distaff. They're not Fates, or anything terrible; they don't affect the lives of men; all they have to do is to see that the world gets it.. story three-girls Mary Stewart
03e83ec The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try fantasy wisdom arthurian-saga the-last-enchantment mary-stewart merlin Mary Stewart
68e5b46 It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one. Mary Stewart
7aa9161 I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. Mary Stewart
a2a15a9 Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more... fate mordred merlin Mary Stewart
53cbcfc But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. Mary Stewart
d5dfe3f I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end. Mary Stewart
9121af7 I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name, Morgause, is only a hissing in the dark. arthurian-legend merlin Mary Stewart
9cc549a To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself. dark-ages king-author merlin wizards Mary Stewart
0f560fe Nothing ever happens to me. Mary Stewart
a8842b8 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 yourself to work out of sheer boredom. Mary Stewart
68fa0c6 I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport. We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond th.. Mary Stewart
a38d615 If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me. Mary Stewart
8bc795a I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. nine-coaches-waiting self-destruction ruin Mary Stewart
8086bf3 Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been. reading books Mary Stewart Atwell
1013d1b At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything. Mary Stewart
8d7674b 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. Mary Stewart
980bf58 Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes. Mary Stewart
6deb5bd Press on, regardless. Mary Stewart
e548254 I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate self-sufficiency doesn't quite suffice, and then the search for the anodyne begins... the radio, the dog, the shampoo, the stockings-to-wash, the tin soldier... Mary Stewart
d1f2b45 If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool. Mary Stewart
77f40fd kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams. love mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting Mary Stewart
a6138ee 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. Mary Stewart
3c09521 Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time. fantasy crystal-cave mary-stewart merlin tactics king-arthur planning strategy legend Mary Stewart
f34c139 Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. writing Mary Stewart
87e2b54 A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds. Mary Stewart
9fdfbae It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it. Mary Stewart
1ada420 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. myth Mary Stewart
6d7dbed 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." -- Mary Stewart
cae70e9 I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand. nature spirit paranormal Mary Stewart
2895d61 By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded. Mary Stewart
51122a4 There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about it. For better or worse, I was head over ears in love... Mary Stewart
a674013 Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds. fantasy arthurian-legend merlin Mary Stewart
410a177 Rest you here, enchanter, while the light fades, Vision narrows, and the far Sky-edge is gone with the sun. Be content with the small spark Of the coal, the smell Of food, and the breath Of frost beyond the shut door. Home is here, and familiar things; A cup, a wooden bowl, a blanket, Prayer, a gift for the god, and sleep. (And music, says the harp, And music.) Rest here, enchanter, while the fire dies. In a breath, in an eyelid's fall, Yo.. myth dreams music merlin enchantment Mary Stewart
7d3a743 The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult. insult mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting Mary Stewart
06f91e7 I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was. wringing-hands nine-coaches-waiting Mary Stewart
22a1852 Dios? ?Dios? Te he oido hablar de muchos dioses. Si te refieres a Mitra... --Mitra, Apolo, Arturo, Cristo, llamalo como quieras --dije--. ?Que importa el nombre que le den los hombres? Es la misma luz, y los hombres deben vivir con esta luz o morir. Yo solo se que Dios es la fuente de toda la luz que ilumina la tierra y que su designio esta en todo el mundo y pasa por cada hombre como un gran rio que no podemos detener ni desviar; solo pode.. Mary Stewart
e6e296d 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 cuirasses that arm the naked nerve. Mary Stewart
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