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Famous Quotes By Kate Milford

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You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you ... — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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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? — Kate Milford

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Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812, — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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Everybody feels better when there's cake — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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

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

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

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Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple. — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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It is not merely our adversaries we must investigate ... We must always work to know ourselves better, too. — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful? — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then? — Kate Milford

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I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that. — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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There is the world you know, the world you have always known; and then you blink, and there is a place you never had any inkling of, and it spreads out across your eyescape. And then, most shockingly of all: there is the realization that these two places are one and the same. It turns out you never really knew the world around you at all. This is often the moment at which adventure begins. — Kate Milford

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But if you want to be a good mayor - there seem to be so very few of them - that must be the sort of thing you have to be destined for. And a wish that goes against your destiny ... that's always a bad idea.. Only a fool scoffs at destiny.'
'I think only a fool relies on it,' Julian grumbled. 'How can destiny decide what I'm going to be before I do? — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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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. — Kate Milford

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

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I started grasping at moments that weren't misery. Slowly, slowly, I found them. — Kate Milford

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When there's evil standing in your way, you got to get around it however you can, Natalie. You got to look it in the eye, let it know you see it and that it can't creep up on you. What's dangerous is pretending it isn't there at all and letting it get closer and closer while you're looking someplace else, until suddenly evil's walking alongside you like you were two friends out for a stroll on Sunday. So you look it in the face. You tell it with your eyes that you know what it is, that it don't have you fooled. You tell it you know what GOOD looks like. — Kate Milford