Keri Hulme Quotes

9 quotes in 189 categories

• But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk… Blind
• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants… Beach
• It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. Bother
• There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. Light
• I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance… Chance
• Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all… All
• The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. Confide
• You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read... Anybody
• A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether… Bane

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