Keri Hulme
Born: 03-08-1947
Keri Hulme was a distinguished New Zealand author best known for her debut novel, "The Bone People," which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1985. Born in 1947 in Christchurch, she was of Māori, Scottish, and English descent. Hulme's writing often explored themes of identity and isolation. Beyond novels, she was also a poet and short story writer. Her unique voice and storytelling left a lasting impact on New Zealand literature.
Book summaries for books written by Keri Hulme
Quotes
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Maybe it was just that I'd always expected the world to be kind, and so I had never fully faced the fact that it was not.
Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and unkind at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and the earth and everything in between.
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
Hate is like a poison that seeps into everything, consuming you from the inside out.
Memories were like stones, time wore them smooth and dull, but those touched most often remained hard and brilliant.
There's a gift in being able to shut off wanting. That keen predatory greed, which with the mere hour of being could empty out waterholes, take villages, and turn rivers, can be calmed.
Fear is very good at finding things to fear.
Grief is an intruder, quick and choking and hiding like the shadows, but anger is a loaded gun.
The only thing out of reach was tomorrow, it was always beyond her, too far ahead to see.
There was an invisible barrier between inside and outside, only glass-thin. In order to break through it, a person had to swipe a finger through the air and hear their own voice shatter like a crystal bell.
A person's moral foundation determines their attitude toward themselves and others, and the clarity of their lens determines their view of any situation.