The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One Quotes

“Not even that. I know how she felt, and she wasn't afraid. She hadn't got further than hearing the beating of his heart, so close, and yet suddenly so sure. Never even alone together before, not properly, and, yet so sure, so sure, that it didn't matter whether 'for ever' meant life's long slow span, or only the next few quiet seconds...”
― Mary Stewart, The Wind Off the Small Isles and the Lost One

“Till then, she would shut her eyes on that empty sea, and think about him, as if by thinking she might make his coming true.”
― Mary Stewart, The Wind Off the Small Isles and the Lost One