The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
Mary StewartTags: wisdom fantasy merlin arthur arthurian-saga mary-stewart the-last-enchantment
The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.
Mary StewartTags: lyrical imagery mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting street-lamps
The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.
Mary StewartTags: insult driving mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting
Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?
Mary StewartTags: mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting
...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.
Mary StewartTags: love kissing mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting
I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was.
Mary StewartTags: mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting wringing-hands
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
Mary StewartTags: luck mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
Mary StewartTags: ruin self-destruction mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting
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