Kate Milford Quotes

#1. Troube comes when a person starts asking for money; it never does what they think it will do. And then there's the problem of destiny. Things never turn out well when you try to outwit destiny. Only fools do that.

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#2. Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

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#3. Well . . . well, yes, I suppose it's very old. Perhaps someone just assumed that since it was an antique, it must be worth something.

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#4. The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.

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#5. Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

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#6. Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812,

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#7. Any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point of reading that book?

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#8. But Milo had a shiny gold present to open, and presents trumped sad trees any day of the week.

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#9. I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that.

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#10. There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

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#11. I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them.

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#12. And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful?

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#13. Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

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#14. Everybody feels better when there's cake

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#15. Nobody said it had to be a story with an ending all neatly tied up like some ridiculous fairy tale. This story's true, and true stories don't have endings, because things just keep going.

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#16. The world is not simple. The world is not one place. It's the sum of an impossible number of incomprehensible things, and if you start out on any road in the world and follow it for any distance at all, sooner or later you enter into a strange country.

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#17. She was thirteen, the daughter of a bicycle mechanic, and she couldn't ride this bicycle. It fought her; it threw her; it hated her.

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#18. It is not merely our adversaries we must investigate ... We must always work to know ourselves better, too.

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#19. You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you ...

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#20. But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

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#21. Everyone know - or at least, was probably told as a child - that you can make a wish on a shooting star. Not everyone knows that the only way to be sure it will come ture is to speak it aloud before the star disappears, and this is a nearly imposssible fet to manage.

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#22. Always check for traps, left is always right unless there's a middle, always put your healer in the best armor and wear your magic rings on your toes instead of your fingers ... What else? ... Always have rope.

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#23. Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.

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#24. In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those who are not like you and impossible not to feel like an outsider.

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