Mary Stewart

“There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.”

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

“It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.”

“The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.”

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

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