22 Quotes by Helen McCloy

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them...

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

Other people’s children, like other people’s love affairs, were so much less interesting than one’s own.

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.