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I’ve always loved the short story form. Short stories are like little gems that you can keep polishing and polishing in your aim for perfection.

— Patricia Grace Interview (2016)

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This first part of the story is about two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, who quarrelled over a canoe.

beginning of Dogside Story (2001)

The city was a great loom weaving its tangles and tufts of people into haphazard multicoloured fabric.

Mutuwhenua : the moon sleeps (1978)

Autumn bends the lights of summer and spreads evening skies with reds and golds. These colours are taken up by falling leaves which jiggle at the fingertips of small-handed winds.

Salt cures.
Sea washes. It cleans.
Expanse enlivens the spirit, frees the mind.

Chappy (2015)

Why is it that one set of stories is called "mythology", and another set of stories is called "the truth"?

Interview (1999)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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