43 Quotes by Margaret Millar

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

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

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

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

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

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

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