Books Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kyo Maclear

“One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things...”

— 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…

— 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.…

— Kyo Maclear