37 Quotes by Kate Milford

Smugglers are always going to be flush with cash as soon as they find a buyer for the eight cartons of fountain pen cartridges that write in illegal shades of green, but they never have money today. You should, if you are going to run a smugglers' hotel, get a big account book and assume that whatever you write in it, the reality is, you're going to get paid in fountain pen cartridges. If you're lucky. You could just as easily get paid with something even more useless.

Georgie's eyelids lowers dangerously. "The thing about meditation is that it works best if people don't tell you you're doing it wrong.

I want that T-shirt" Sirin muttered. " I should have that T-shirt.

Never overlook folklore if you want to really know about the place it came from.

That thing is good luck?" Emmet asked darkly. Nobody had to wonder what he meant by 'that thing

But when things were passed to you, you were supposed to pass them on to someone else eventually too.

A crossroads can be something special, a compass with arms reaching to places you might never find the way to again; places that might exist, or might have existed once, or might exist someday, depending on whether or not you decide to look for them.

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.

Everybody feels better when there’s cake.