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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.”
“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...”