Quotes by : Keri Hulme

Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass....

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like....

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth.......

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little....

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence.....

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf....

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes....