“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. I”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“—¿Dios? ¿Dios? Te he oído hablar de muchos dioses.
Si te refieres a Mitra...
—Mitra, Apolo, Arturo, Cristo, llámalo como quieras —dije—.
¿Qué importa el nombre que le den los hombres? Es la misma luz, y los hombres deben vivir con esta luz o morir. Yo sólo sé que Dios es la fuente
de toda la luz que ilumina la tierra y que su designio está en todo el mundo y pasa por cada hombre como un gran río que no podemos detener ni desviar; solo podemos beber de él mientras vivimos y encomendar nuestros cuerpos en él cuando morimos.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“Used every man according to his capacity.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“sat, chin on hand, thinking, my eyes on the bright distance. I”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“A round moon stood low in the sky, pale still, and smudged with shadow, and thin at one edge like a worn coin. There was a scatter of small stars, with here and there the shepherd stars herding them, and across from the moon one great star alone, burning white. The shadows were long and soft on the seeding grasses. A”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
“A robin lighted on a blackthorn at my elbow, and began to sing. The sound came high and sweet and uncaring through all the noise of battle. To this day, whenever I think of the battle for Kaerconan, it brings to mind a robin’s song, mingled with the croaking of the ravens.”
― Mary Stewart, quote from The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart
Born place: in Sunderland, The United Kingdom
Born date September 12, 1916
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“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”
― Alexander Theroux, quote from Darconville’s Cat
“And how easy it was to leave this life, after all - this life that could feel so present and permanent that departing from it must seem to require a tear into a different dimension. There the bunch of them were, young hopefuls, decorating their annually purged dorm rooms with postcards and prints and favorite photographs of friends, filling them with hot pots and dried flowers, throw rugs and stereos. Houseplants, a lamp, maybe some furniture brought up by encouraging parents. They nested there like miniature grownups. As if this provisional student life - with its brushfire friendships and drink-addled intimacies, its gorging on knowledge and blind sexual indulgences - could possibly last. As if it were a home, of any kind at all: someplace to gather one's sense of self. Flannery had never felt for a minute that these months of shared living took place on anything other than quicksand, and it had given this whole year (these scant seven or eight months, into which an aging decade or so had been condensed) a sliding, wavery feel. She came from earthquake country and knew the dangers of building on landfill. That was, it seemed to Flannery, the best description of this willed group project of freshman year: construction on landfill. A collective confusion of impressions and tendencies, mostly castoffs with a few keepers. What was there to count on in any of it? What structure would remain, founded on that?”
― Sylvia Brownrigg, quote from Pages for You
“That’s okay, baby. I don’t need to know your name, just need to know how hard you like it.”
― River Savage, quote from Incandescent
“And then I thought that people like to talk about their pain and loneliness but in disguised ways. Or in ways that are sort of organized but not really. I realized that when I try to start conversations with people, just strangers on the street or in the grocery store, they think I’m exposing my pain or loneliness in the wrong way and they get nervous. But then I saw the impromptu choir repeating the line about everyone having holes in their lives, and so beautifully, so gently and with such acceptance and even joy, just acknowledging it, and I realized that there are ways to do it, just not the ones that I’d been trying.”
― Miriam Toews, quote from All My Puny Sorrows
“This isn't high school," I said, eyeing him playfully. "You're way out of your depth.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Aflame
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