Mary Stewart citations

“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.”

“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you…”

“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”

“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”

“It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.”

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