Kate Milford Quotes

“...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?”

“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”

“He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.”

“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.”

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

“Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.”

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

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

“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.”

“But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?”