37 Quotes by Kate Milford

Don't stay out long or whatever a responsible adult would say. Wear a hat and what not.""Yeah, I'll tie my shoes and everything.

He broke my coffee maker. This person is not just tricky, he's evil. Who messes with someone's coffeepot? That's hitting below the belt.

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.

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.

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

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

Plus, the thing about attics and basements was, everything in there had once been a treasure to someone. Otherwise there'd have been no reason to keep it.

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

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