Mary Stewart Quotes

• The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

  Mary Stewart

  Thinking, Way, Forget

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.55, Hachette UK

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

  Mary Stewart

  Hope, Fall, Light

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• 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

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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

  Mary Stewart

  Path, Ifs

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

  Mary Stewart

  Feelings, Facts, Truth Is

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• The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

  Mary Stewart

  Essence, Trying, Useless

  Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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• It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

  Mary Stewart

  Wise, Knowledge, Knowing

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Garden, Plant

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• It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

  Mary Stewart

  People, Mind Your Own Business, Watches

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• I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

  Mary Stewart

  World, Knows

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Thornyhold”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

  Mary Stewart

  Believe, Gossip, Say Anything

  Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

  Mary Stewart

  Pain, Sleep, Dark

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

  Mary Stewart

  Memories, Hair, Smell

  Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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

  Loneliness, Circles, Littles

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Nine Coaches Waiting”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

  Mary Stewart

  Children, Mistake, Thinking

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

  Mary Stewart

  Dollars, Half, Poverty

  Mary Stewart (2011). “The Ivy Tree”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Granted, Get To Know Me

  Mary Stewart (2011). “My Brother Michael”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

  Mary Stewart

  Tree, Easy, Grows

  Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• 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

  Power, Men, Ambitious

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Powerful, Past

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• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Soldier, Navy

  Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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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.

  Mary Stewart

  Doe, May, Neglect

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• 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.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Seeds, Carrie

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

  Mary Stewart

  Stress, Blue, Levels

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• There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

  Mary Stewart

  Fear, Laughter, Anger

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