43 Quotes by Margaret Millar

Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.

It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where gardens, parenthood and the future were planned with equal care, and even if everything went wrong the master plan remained in effect–keep up appearances, clip the hedges, mow the lawn, so that no one will suspect that there’s a third mortgage and that Mother’s headaches are caused by martinis not migraine.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

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.