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Keri Hulme Quotes

Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer. Her only novel, The Bone People, won the Booker Prize in 1985.



✵ 9. March 1947

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The Bone People
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The Bone People
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Famous Keri Hulme Quotes

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

Keri Hulme book The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

“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 book The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…”

Keri Hulme book The Bone People

Source: The Bone People

“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

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