--- title: "2 Tear Quotes By Kay Ryan" description: "2 Tear quotes by Kay Ryan. Plus more from Kay Ryan and more Tear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/kay-ryan-16282_hide_hide-and-seek-it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out_1216726.png" --- > [“Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It's like some form of skin's developed in the air that, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/hide-and-seek-it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out-instead-of-waiting-to-be/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/kay-ryan-16282_hide_hide-and-seek-it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out_1216726.png) > [It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out-instead-of-waiting-to-be-found-it-s-hard-to/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eda/kay-ryan-16282_air_it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out-instead-of-wai_3169802.png) ## Other authors on Tear - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tear/ritu-ghatourey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tear/nishan-panwar/) - [Israelmore Ayivor 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tear/israelmore-ayivor/) ## More by Kay Ryan > [A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/a-too-closely-watched-flower-blossoms-the-wrong-color-excess/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [It isn't ever delicate to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/it-isn-t-ever-delicate-to-live/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/i-simply-want-to-celebrate-the-fact-that-right-near-your-home-year-in/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-day-misspent-the-love-misplaced-has-inside-it-the-seed-of/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“ Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane- something still upon which something settles-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/stardust-is-the-hardest-thing-to-hold-out-for-you-must-make-of/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/what-keeps-me-writing-is-that-i-can-only-know-through-writing-my/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/forgetting-takes-space-forgotten-matters-displace-as-much-anything/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“The Self Is Not Portable The self is not portable. It cannot be packed. It comes sneaking back to any place from which it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-self-is-not-portable-the-self-is-not-portable-it-cannot-be-packed/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/who-would-have-guessed-it-possible-that-waiting-is-sustainable-a/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/the-only-real-access-that-i-have-to-my-mind-is-when-i-m-writing/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/gaps-don-t-just-happen-there-is-a-generative-element-inside-them-a/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It's hard to be alone so long and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/hide-and-seek-it-s-hard-not-to-jump-out-instead-of-waiting-to-be/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/there-are-high-places-that-don-t-invite-us-sharp-shapes-glacier/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/i-simply-want-to-celebrate-the-fact-that-right-near-your-home-year-in-2/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) > [“A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-ryan/a-certain-kind-of-eden-holds-us-thrall/) [Kay Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-ryan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tear/kay-ryan/#itemlist", "name": "2 Tear Quotes By Kay Ryan", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Hide and Seek It's hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. 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