Margaret Millar Quotes

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

The sun was shining like a congratulation.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.