Laura Miller

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. ↗

— Laura Miller

#lit #reading #security

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely? ↗

— Laura Miller

#children #escapism #fantasy #reading #reality

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. ↗

— Laura Miller

#contemporary-romance #love #my-butterfly #love

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. ↗

— Laura Miller

#meaning #art

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly ↗

— Laura Miller

#love

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer. ↗

— Laura Miller

#hope #i #looking #one thing #out

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. ↗

— Laura Miller

#campaign #city #city hall #cleaning #ethics

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? ↗

— Laura Miller

#city #city hall #cuts #forces #hall

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall. ↗

— Laura Miller

#city #city hall #ethics #focus #hall

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill. ↗

— Laura Miller

#bill #city #city hall #did #footing