Mary Stewart

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

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

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.