26 Quotes by 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.

What does he mean by disgraceful propensities?""Weelll, I should imagine in that ingrown aristocracy it could mean anything from an improper preference for scotch whisky, to a practiced predilection for raping the cat."He chokes on his coffee.

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

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

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

I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.

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.

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.

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.