I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

- Mary Stewart

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

- Mary Stewart

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

- Mary Stewart

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening a…

- Mary Stewart

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

- Mary Stewart

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

- Mary Stewart

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

- Mary Stewart

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

- Mary Stewart

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

- Mary Stewart