“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 Copy Share Image
“There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“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… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“All his life, ever since he was really small, Milo had been very bothered by sudden changes of plan. More than bothered. Being surprised… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“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… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“There is a right way to do things and a wrong way, if you're going to run a hotel in a smugglers' town.” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful?” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“I always assume people are hiding parts of themselves from each other. People do that.” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“Most things cost something you can give up, but they aren’t worth anything – not really, not in the end. But some things .… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
“You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...” — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
