The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”
“But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.”
“I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end.”
“Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.”
“Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.”
“A round moon stood low in the sky, pale still, and smudged with shadow, and thin at one edge like a worn coin. There was a scatter of small stars, with here and there the shepherd stars herding them, and across from the moon one great star alone, burning white. The shadows were long and soft on the seeding grasses. A”
“Used every man according to his capacity.”
“Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.”
“Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.”
“the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.”
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