Mary Stewart

“Midnight is a time of magic. It's a time when everything is possible.”

“There is no more certain way of wondering what the other fellow is going to do than to be without a plan of your own.”

“It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.”

“Love is not a feeling to be learned. It is a feeling that happens.”

“When you are fitted in a racing boat, you are fitted to it with a shoehorn.”

“Laughter is the loaded cannon of the soul.”

“This is what it is to be a man... to be a man of honour. To be the master of his own soul.”

“It is the last and hardest battle of all, to be nobody but yourself.”

“But I had not known that I was shedding skin. I had not known that I was getting a new one.”

“A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where you can rub out the bits you don't like.”

“Hate is a dead thing. Who of us would be a tomb for a dead thing?”

“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he was before - it takes something from him.”

“The gods do not give to us our fortunes, but our web of circumstance is woven of our own making.”

“Some things are best left to the gods.”

“To be sure, I had been an ass, but then, that is the nature of asses, to be asinine.”