Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart
loneliness circles littles
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...
pain sleep dark
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
party two political
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
feelings facts truth-is
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
tree easy grows
Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.
world knows
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
people mind-your-own-business watches
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.
memories smell hair
The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.
half poverty dollars
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
thinking past sometimes
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.
moving grief trying
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.
men granted get-to-know-me
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
may doe neglect
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try