Skylarking Quotes

“How could I want one thing so much and its exact opposite at the same time?”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“thoughts and dreams. Surely my mother, as we kneaded the dough for our bread and placed it in tins, must realise that my thoughts were not on the spongy dough but on the silhouette of McPhail”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“the tea. ‘Shall we sit?’ I said, and pulled up a chair to the table. I cupped both hands around the mug. ‘Maybe we could stay here on”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“I tried desperately to shift the weight of the dish back in towards me, as I saw Mother reaching”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“with James trailing behind. We gathered up the rest of our”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“You can leave the table, dear,’ she said. I suspect, thinking back on it, that she already knew exactly what”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“the recipe. It made me feel small, but anchored. Tied to a thing that”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“for a moment.”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“It is fate, damn destiny, that has its way with us.”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“Studding the indigo sky were thousands and thousands of stars. On nights like this, you could almost feel the planet moving on its axis.”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking

“One did not fully exist without the other.”
― Kate Mildenhall, Skylarking