Wildfire at Midnight Quotes

“If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight

“It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight

“I wondered irritably why married women so often adopted that tone, almost, of superior satisfaction in the things they had to suffer.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight

“I thought wryly that nobody ever wanted advice anyway: all that most people sought was ratification of their own views.”
― Mary Stewart, Wildfire at Midnight