quotes by 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 (The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2))

"Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will."
— Mary Stewart (The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2))

"I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

—chapter 8"
— Mary Stewart (The Stormy Petrel)

"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.

—spoken by Merlin Ambrosius, chapter 11"
— Mary Stewart (The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2))