Beast In View Quotes

“Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen."
"I wasn't born with it."
"Where did you get it?"
'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“The desk clerk, whose name plate identified him as G. O. Horner, was a thin elderly man with protuberant eyes that gave him an expression of intense interest and curiosity. The expression was false. After thirty years in the business, people meant no more to him than individual bees do to a beekeeper. Their differences were lost in a welter of statistics, eradicated by sheer weight of numbers. They came and went, ate, drank, were happy, sad, thin, fat, stole towels and left behind toothbrushes, books, girdles, jewelry, burned holes in the furniture, slipped in bathtubs, jumped out windows. They were all alive. swarming around the hive, and Mr. Horner wore a protective net of indifference over his head and shoulders.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“The silence stretched out like tape from a roller until there seemed no logical place to cut it”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“Nothing was new anymore. Summer had passed. The winter of boredom had set in and frost had formed in the crevices of Blackshear's mind.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“Nothing was new anymore. Summer had passed, The winter of boredom had set in and frost had formed in the crevices of Blackshear's mind.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“Once in a while Blackshear was invited out to the house for dinner, and on these occasions the conversation was conducted by Verna Clarvoe, who would chatter endlessly on the I-me-my level.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“I should retire altogether -- but what will I do with the days and what will they do to me?”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“[T]he brisk sea wind cooled his passions and neutralized the acid in his mind.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“They were dark, despairing eyes that had experienced too much and interpreted too little.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“Yes, you are. You’re Helen and I don’t want you to be anybody else. I like you exactly as you are. Other people will, too, if you’ll let them. They’ll like you just as you are, just for yourself alone, Helen.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“Non sentì dolore, fu solo sorpresa nel vedere come era bello il sangue. Bello come una collana di rubini che nessun filo avrebbe potuto trattenere.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View