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“But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?”
“Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.”
“You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...”
“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.”
“...But if you want to be a good mayorthere seem to be so very few of themthat 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 ...”
“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.”
“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 shocking...”
“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...”
“Everyone knowor at least, was probably told as a childthat 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 ...”
“...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 ba...”
“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 th...”
