It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.
Mary StewartThe best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary StewartWhere two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
Mary StewartBut I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Mary StewartTo 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 age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
Mary Stewart