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  • #1
    Kyo Maclear
    “If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.”
    Kyo Maclear, Virginia Wolf

  • #2
    Kyo Maclear
    “A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #3
    Kyo Maclear
    “What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing
    tags: grief

  • #4
    Kyo Maclear
    “If we hybrids have a superpower, it is the ability to side-see, to scour the periphery of stories and a heritage industry that view the world too narrowly. We know the world is a continuum of polar things, and the words “my people” and “my roots” can be a carnival of confusion.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #5
    Kyo Maclear
    “Red trillium, clintonia, trout lily and bellwort— the artist explained that these fragile groupings, some upwards of one hundred years old, had a greater capacity for reproduction and survival than single specimens.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #6
    Kyo Maclear
    “I wasn’t asking to be admitted to the family. Or was I? I wasn’t kin and he didn’t owe me anything. Or did he? The questions were not just about myself but about all people who are, to a greater or lesser extent, shaky arrivals, showing up unannounced, trying to migrate into a kind of safety or homecoming. Some of us stood outside the door campaigning for admittance, and some of us were thinking It’s a minuscule country, for God’s sake, how many more can we fit? And every one of us was related.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #7
    Kyo Maclear
    “Stories of maternal secrecy are rare. I wanted to think about my mother’s heart away from the troubling moralism that attached to female promiscuity. I wanted to know more about this heart. Not the trapped heart I knew growing up. The heart that found a lover.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #8
    Kyo Maclear
    “What is a heart but a broken masterwork pieced together from desire, envy, regret, nostalgia, pity, tenderness and hope? What is a heart but a way of muscling your way onward? What is a heart but a fist?”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing
    tags: heart, love

  • #9
    Kyo Maclear
    “Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

  • #10
    Kyo Maclear
    “I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift.”
    Kyo Maclear, Unearthing



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