the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. — Margaret Millar Birth Copy Share Image
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans. — Margaret Millar Life Copy Share Image
I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife. — Margaret Millar Afterlife Copy Share Image
When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none. — Margaret Millar Alibis Copy Share Image
You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs. — Margaret Millar Character Copy Share Image
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar Lilac Copy Share Image
Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius. — Margaret Millar Common Copy Share Image
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future. — Margaret Millar Air Copy Share Image
The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight. — Margaret Millar Age Copy Share Image
The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock… — Margaret Millar Fall Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us… — Margaret Millar Access Copy Share Image
You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim. — Margaret Millar Drown Copy Share Image
I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard. — Margaret Millar Easy Copy Share Image
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. — Margaret Millar Bad man Copy Share Image
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas. — Margaret Millar Alas Copy Share Image
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. — Margaret Millar Communication Copy Share Image
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born. — Margaret Millar Born Copy Share Image
Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting. — Margaret Millar Acting Copy Share Image
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost… — Margaret Millar Awareness Copy Share Image
“The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist...” — Margaret Millar Monster Copy Share Image
I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become… — Margaret Millar Age Copy Share Image
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more. — Margaret Millar Accidents Copy Share Image
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. — Margaret Millar Assumption Copy Share Image
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them. — Margaret Millar Believe Copy Share Image
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational… — Margaret Millar Conform Copy Share Image
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until… — Margaret Millar Conscience Copy Share Image
“It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where… — Margaret Millar Conformity Copy Share Image
