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Top 20 Keri Hulme Quotes (2024 Update)

Keri Hulme Quote: “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read...”

1. “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read...”

Keri Hulme Quote: “I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.”

2. “I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.”

3. “There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

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

Keri Hulme Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.”

7. “I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.”

11. “The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?”

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

Keri Hulme Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.”

16. “The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y’know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.”

17. “I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y’know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “It’s the possibility that when you’re dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.”

18. “It’s the possibility that when you’re dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.”

Keri Hulme Quote: “There really is no place like home, even when it’s grown a couple of sizes too small...”

19. “There really is no place like home, even when it’s grown a couple of sizes too small...”

Keri Hulme Quote: “Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...”

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

Keri Hulme Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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