Quotes from The Bone People — Keri Hulme
1947–2021 New Zealand
← All quotes by Keri Hulme
3 quotes
Hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. (chapter 2, p71)
The Bone People (1984)
Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth.... (chapter 6, p249)
The Bone People (1984)
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. (chapter 3, p94)
The Bone People (1984)