Mary Stewart Quotes - Page 2

• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Two, Political

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Mary Stewart

  Believe, People, House

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Book, People, Earth

  Mary Stewart (1969). “Nine Coaches Waiting”

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• ...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

  Mary Stewart

  Horse, Moon, Light

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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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• Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

  Mary Stewart

  Past, Thinking, Sometimes

  Mary Stewart (1961). “The Ivy Tree”

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• Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

  Mary Stewart

  Grief, Moving, Tragedy

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Nine Coaches Waiting”, p.98, Hachette UK

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

  Mary Stewart

  Luck, Wells, Tempted

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Nine Coaches Waiting”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

  Mary Stewart

  Law, Lightning, Mills

  Mary Stewart (1981). “Touch not the cat”, Fawcett Books

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