Margaret Millar Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.

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