It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. - Keri Hulme
She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water. - Keri Hulme
The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. - Keri Hulme
Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end. - Keri Hulme
A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. - Keri Hulme
I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood. - Keri Hulme