Mary Stewart - The Hollow Hills (1973)

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Mary Stewart

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

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 gods love salt. The sweat of human endeavour adds savour to every sacrifice.

Mary Stewart

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Mary Stewart

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Mary Stewart