34 Quotes by 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.

Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. We are unable to truly grasp how much of the natural world has been altered and destroyed by our actions because the baseline shifts over time and generations have rendered us blind. Our standards have been lowered almost unnoticeably. What we might regard as pristine nature today is a shadow of what once existed. We can't seem to remember how things used to be.

I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

Sometimes you have to have the lightest touch to lift a heavy heart, to speak at all.

It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?

There are moments when what we need, what will benefit us most, is the power to style our own stories.

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