Mary Stewart

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 Stewart

#death

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more… ↗

— Mary Stewart

#fate #merlin #mordred #death

Nothing ever happens to me. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#first-sentence

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#dark-ages #king-author #merlin #wizards #age

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#writing #death

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

— Mary Stewart

#love #mary-stewart #nine-coaches-waiting #dreams

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#nine-coaches-waiting #ruin #self-destruction #love

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#closest #death #few #few men #live

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#god #law #lightning #like #mills

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#face #i #i can #level #reduce