Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart
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.
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
across bring character favorite gratifying life love resonates trying unique work
I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.
adding drop problem
I would have no problem with 'Stewart Mid-Hudson Airport' or something like that, adding a geographical portion. But I don't want them to drop the name.
scared
I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.
agencies letting people trick
There will always be the agencies out there, ... The trick is letting the people know about them.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
ambitious fear likely men noticed slightest threat
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in powerthey fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
law lightning mills
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
art garden plant
To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.
art powerful past
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.
horse moon white
...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.
fear laughter anger
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.
men power ambitious
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.