Keri Hulme Quotes

Sunflowers and seashells and logarithmic spirals (said Kerewin); sweep of galaxies and the singing curve of the universe (said Kerewin); the oscilating wave thrumming in the nothingness of every atom's heart (said Kerewin); did you think I could build a square house? So the round shell house holds them all in its spiralling embrace. Noise and riot, peace and quiet, all is music in this sphere. ~ Keri Hulme

They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great.
Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. ~ Keri Hulme

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. ~ Keri Hulme

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth ... ~ Keri Hulme

I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself. ~ Keri Hulme

I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page. ~ Keri Hulme

But something. Something has died. Isn't there now. I can't paint.' There are tears in her voice but none in her eyes. 'I am dead inside'. ~ Keri Hulme

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

Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be. ~ Keri Hulme

Between waking and being awake there is a moment full of doubt and dream, when you struggle to remember what the place and when the time and whether you really are.
A peevish moment of wonderment as to where the real world lies. ~ Keri Hulme

There really is no place like home, even when it's grown a couple of sizes too small... ~ Keri Hulme

I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. Why, when everyone else was fascinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. I've never been attracted to men. Or women. Or anything else. It's difficult to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite. ~ Keri Hulme

I am exceedingly angry for no good reason. ~ Keri Hulme

Writing isn't my life…it's a lovely part of my life... but it's not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can't really prioritize when you're involved with family or you're involved in fishing, you can't say, 'Oh, I really should be writing. ~ Keri Hulme

Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee. ~ Keri Hulme

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water. ~ Keri Hulme

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

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains. ~ Keri Hulme

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

All the land is filled with mysteries, and this place fairly sings with them. ~ Keri Hulme

A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. ~ Keri Hulme

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. ~ Keri Hulme

I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember. ~ Keri Smith

Just kept hoping that if I believed something hard enough, it might actually come true. ~ Keri Arthur

The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it ... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad. ~ Scott Foley

I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me. ~ Keri Hilson

Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour. ~ Keri Russell

I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl. ~ Keri Hilson

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions. ~ T. E. Hulme

Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives. ~ Keri Arthur

I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too. ~ Keri Russell

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. ~ Keri Hilson

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him. ~ T. E. Hulme

I love the water; I love to swim. ~ Keri Hilson

You are the fire in my veins. A storm inside my heart. Here, I have you in my arms and I still yearn for you. ~ Keri Lake

I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house. ~ Keri Russell

I don't have a beef with any female artist. ~ Keri Hilson

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. ~ T. E. Hulme

The stars in the sky are the souls of the people we love. They shine so bright, not even the night can hide them. And when we're lost, they guide us. ~ Keri Lake

He shakes his head and huffs. Here's a tip from a bastard who's done some pretty stupid shit in his life. Every decision you make affects every moment that follows, Dylan. It's like a ripple effect. Choose wisely. ~ Keri Lake

The girl has corrupted every fiber of my being, and no one will ever be good enough after her. No one will ever compare to the flesh and blood fantasy before me. She's mine.
The breath of new life. The steady pulse in my veins. The long-awaited beat of a heart that's been dead too long.
My kindred flame. ~ Keri Lake

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area. ~ Keri Hilson

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. ~ T. E. Hulme

Creation and healing are born of the same thread. Bringing something to life can sometimes heal the soul, while still honoring what a person has lost. ~ Keri Lake

Nasty thing, a conscience, isn't it? Keeps us aware of what's right and wrong. ~ Keri Lake

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice. ~ Keri Russell

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling. ~ T. E. Hulme

On the other hand, men are sometimes wildly inappropriate in the way they share with women. By a show of hands, how many of you have seen a strange penis on the street? On the subway? At a sleepover? I was once walking with my friend Keri in the middle of the day and some guy asked us for the time. When we looked down at our watches, his dick was in his hands. We giggled and screamed and ran away. We were probably ten. I have been really drunk in high school and had a guy try to fool around with me. I have been called a bitch and a lesbian when I rejected a guy in college. I have locked eyes with various subway masturbators. I have been mugged but not raped, pushed and spit on by someone I knew, and forced to pull over in a road-rage incident where a man stuck his head into my car and told me he was going to "cum in my face." And I count myself very lucky. That is what "very lucky" feels like. Oof. ~ Amy Poehler

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me. ~ Keri Arthur

Starke, release me or I'll kick you in the balls.
And that would hurt, given the current rock-hard state of that area. ~ Keri Arthur

The world will not fall apart. ~ Keri Smith

Thank you, miss ... ?"
"Annabelle." She dropped a napkin onto his lap and smiled. "And might I say you are a handsome gent. Beautiful green eyes! I can see why Miss Ayden fancies your company!"
Kane frowned. "Miss Ayden? Is this the same creepy woman with the gray eyes and weapons arsenal dangling from her hips?"
"Why yes, sir. Although, she's not so scary, once you get to know her." Anna backed away and clasped her fingers together. "Bit of a sweet spot she has." She winked.
"Yeah. I noticed. ~ Keri Lake

It's been three years since I've touched someone. I don't want to give you pain with these hands. I just want to feel. ~ Keri Lake

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in ... He has not created something,he has seen something. ~ T. E. Hulme

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. ~ T. E. Hulme

I was addicted to his danger, and holy shit, I had it bad for the ultimate bad boy. More alpha than I probably knew what to do with. ~ Keri Lake

There was nothing normal or typical about our love. We should've been one hot mess of madness for all that we'd suffered, but just as a flower grows from the sky's tears, our love grew from pain. It blossomed in darkness and thrived with time. ~ Keri Lake

There is no other woman for me, Sera. It's only you … Like a fucking addiction I can't shake."
I couldn't see his eyes, but I could hear the quaver in his voice, the unstable sound of a man on the edge.
"I'll never be good enough. Not for you. But tonight, I'm going to make you feel good. ~ Keri Lake

In case it's escaped your notice, that bastard has tried to kill me twice now. How about using your considerable power to track him down rather than trying to unravel my unremarkable past? ~ Keri Arthur

People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who's been around pregnant women knows that it's not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you're angry and you have tantrums. ~ Keri Russell

You asked for dark. I'm going to give it to you ... You are the violence inside of me, Aubree. My most exquisite destruction. ~ Keri Lake

I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more. ~ Keri Smith

I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness. Yin and yang. Black and white. Beauty and scars; fury and forgiveness. She should've been my nemesis, but in her, I found something I didn't know I was looking for. ~ Keri Lake

You are my body, my soul, the energy by which I live, and the song in my heart. ~ Keri Arthur

A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page. ~ Keri Smith

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys. ~ Keri Hilson

Monsters did exist. They didn't hide under the bed, though. They stormed through the fucking door and stole away everything we loved.
To defeat a monster, I had to become one. ~ Keri Lake

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family. ~ Keri Hilson

Pleasuring her might've kept the blackness at bay , but if I took her, if I selfishly fucked her to sate myself, was there a chance I could kill her? ~ Keri Lake