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 worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. - Keri Hulme
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
- 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
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…
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. - Keri Hulme
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.
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
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…
Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark? - Keri Hulme
Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?
But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. - Keri Hulme
But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.
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
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 …
You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read. - Keri Hulme
You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.
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
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…
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