134 Quotes by Mary Stewart

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.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Count Ambrosius was out of practice at chess. The usual game was dice, and he was not risking that against an infant soothsayer. Chess, being a matter of mathematics rather than magic, was less susceptible to the black arts.' --twelve-year-old Merlin, The Crystal Cave, p. 131 of 384

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

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.

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…

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.