It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

- Keri Hulme

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

- Keri Hulme

I am not a person to say the words out loud I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page: know it from there, from my silence, from so…

- Keri Hulme

Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was wo…

- Keri Hulme

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

- Keri Hulme

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

- Keri Hulme

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 never was my …

- Keri Hulme

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 my family is bane or m…

- Keri Hulme

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

- Keri Hulme