Quotes by : Mary Stewart

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

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

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

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes....

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

I saw the first light, fore-running the sun, gather in a cup of the eastern cloud, gather and grow and....

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could....

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

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

It was nearing 9 O'clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked....