"the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring."

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Source : Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

#Spring Quotes #Smell Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“The gift without the giver is rare.”
“I was a precocious reader.”

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“My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.”

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“Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.”
“Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.”
“Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.”
“There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.”
“There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.”

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