“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting at the checkout counter. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the train. Waiting for the plane. Waiting in a… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“But it is not glorious lulls that concern me. It is the lulls that have no velocity, that offer no structured reassurance, that bloom… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting at the… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
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… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to whisper to be heard. Our culture is very much one of "bigging it up," always upping the noise level in… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away.… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
One thing that stress does is make us ungenerous, so we constrict, we look after our own. We get solipsistic and go into our… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...” — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
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… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory.… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“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… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“If I am guilty of hiding among tinier people in a tinier parallel world, it is because I am searching for other models of… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
