The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance. Keri Hulme More Quotes by Keri Hulme More Quotes From Keri Hulme You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read. Keri Hulme knows want book I am not a person to say the words out loud Keri Hulme pages silence thinking 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 meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. Keri Hulme dysfunctional-family gone-away heart 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 came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains. Keri Hulme pain islands beach But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. Keri Hulme sacred-things eye hands 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 strong point. Keri Hulme endurance strong race There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. Keri Hulme shadow light quiet It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. Keri Hulme hurt goes-on might I am exceedingly angry for no good reason. Keri Hulme angry reason I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life. Keri Hulme weed eye hair I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever. Keri Hulme color soul forever Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark? Keri Hulme dark dream war 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. Keri Hulme skills land artist The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. Keri Hulme reason inspirational life 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 grist to the mill of why. Keri Hulme fire sea boys
