This Rough Magic Quotes

“I supposed there were circumstances in which it was correct, even praiseworthy, for a girl to bash a man's head in with a lamp while he was kissing her...”
― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

“Funny, isn’t it, how often that so-called “man’s world” works out as a sort of juvenile delinquents’ playground?”
― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

“It’s from a play, Tourneur’s Revenger’s Tragedy. “Hell would look like a lord’s great kitchen without fire in’t.”
― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

“It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and each other. You go on kidding yourself that you’re impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realise you’re dead, and you’ve never been alive at all. Being alive hurts.”
― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic

“Neither of us moved or spoke, but a kind of wordless conversation seemed to take place, and I was filled with a sudden, heart-swelling elation and happiness, as if the sun had come out on my birthday morning and I had been given the world.”
― Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic: A Novel