--- title: "1 Retreated Mist Quotes By Kyo Maclear" description: "1 Retreated Mist quotes by Kyo Maclear. Plus more from Kyo Maclear and more Retreated Mist sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6a/kyo-maclear-23479_buckingham-palace_the-fog-turned-a-strange-yellow-then-ora_1379146.jpg" --- > [“The fog turned a strange yellow, then orange, then black. The gilded winged statue Victory at Buckingham Palace retreated into mist. St. Paul's was a hazy outline, ghostlike in the gloom. La Traviata at the Sadler's Wells theatre was terminated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/the-fog-turned-a-strange-yellow-then-orange-then-black-the-gilded/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6a/kyo-maclear-23479_buckingham-palace_the-fog-turned-a-strange-yellow-then-ora_1379146.jpg) ## More by Kyo Maclear > [Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/bend-words-stretch-them-squash-them-mash-them-up-fold-them-turn-them/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“But it is not glorious lulls that concern me. It is the lulls that have no velocity, that offer no structured reassurance, that bloom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/but-it-is-not-glorious-lulls-that-concern-me-it-is-the-lulls-that/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/i-like-the-idea-of-songs-sung-by-those-without-big-voices-you-know/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/waiting-for-a-late-friend-waiting-in-line-at-the-movies-waiting-for/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/the-one-thing-i-d-thought-of-is-that-we-spend-most-of-our-lives-in/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [Sometimes you have to whisper to be heard. Our culture is very much one of "bigging it up," always upping the noise level in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/sometimes-you-have-to-whisper-to-be-heard-our-culture-is-very-much/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/books-have-given-me-great-stores-of-happiness-but-if-i-am-honest-with/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/if-the-wind-is-going-the-right-way-some-birds-like-to-spread-their/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/you-can-make-change-or-it-can-make-you-change-is-to-keep-us-on-our/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [One thing that stress does is make us ungenerous, so we constrict, we look after our own. We get solipsistic and go into our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/one-thing-that-stress-does-is-make-us-ungenerous-so-we-constrict-we/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/one-day-my-sister-virginia-woke-up-feeling-wolfish-she-made-wolf/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/i-wanted-to-talk-about-certain-things-in-a-way-that-i-hadn-t-seen/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/it-is-possible-too-that-i-was-experiencing-something-known-as/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“The fog turned a strange yellow, then orange, then black. The gilded winged statue Victory at Buckingham Palace retreated into mist. St. Paul's was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/the-fog-turned-a-strange-yellow-then-orange-then-black-the-gilded/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) > [“If I am guilty of hiding among tinier people in a tinier parallel world, it is because I am searching for other models of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyo-maclear/if-i-am-guilty-of-hiding-among-tinier-people-in-a-tinier-parallel/) [Kyo Maclear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyo-maclear/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/retreated-mist/kyo-maclear/#itemlist", "name": "1 Retreated Mist Quotes By Kyo Maclear", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The fog turned a strange yellow, then orange, then black. The gilded winged statue Victory at Buckingham Palace retreated into mist. 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